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Anthony Modeste (l.) finds the net in 1. FC Köln's win against Hamburger SV on Matchday 9. - © © imago
Anthony Modeste (l.) finds the net in 1. FC Köln's win against Hamburger SV on Matchday 9. - © © imago

Hinrunde highlights: Matchday 9 - Modeste's historic hat-trick

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From RB Leipzig's unexpected title tilt to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's pace-setting pursuit of the Torjägerkanone, the first half of the 2016/17 Bundesliga campaign has produced thrills and spills by the bucketload.

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Not a single round of fixtures went by without something worthy of the highlight reel, which made our mid-season task of selecting the standout encounter from Matchdays 1 through 16 all the more difficult - but we got there in the end!

Anthony Modeste scored a historic hat-trick on Matchday 9 to inspire 1. FC Köln to a 3-0 win against Hamburger SV. The Frenchman's treble made him the first player to score a top-flight hat-trick for the Billy Goats since Toni Polster did so in a 4-2 win against Borussia Dortmund in December 1997. It also took Modeste top of the Bundesliga scoring charts with 11 goals from nine games. The defeat simultaneously set a historic low for Hamburg: it was the first time in Bundesliga history that the northern giants had gone seven consecutive games without scoring.

Watch: Relive Anthony Modeste's superb hat-trick against Hamburg:

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