Zlatan Ibrahimovic got himself a hat trick this afternoon in a 4-1 win over Saint-Étienne in the Coupe de France and it was his second goal that was the best of the bunch. Zlatan raced up the middle of the pitch where he found himself alone in space with no one to beat but the keeper, Stéphane Ruffier. Ruffier charged the ball, but Zlatan simply flicked it to the side and flanked him to get back to the ball and strike it into the net.
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His third goal was another bit of surgical precision, and he beat Ruffier by just barely tucking this ball inside the near post (with a friend-of-the-Gods bounce over the keeper's outstretched hands). Zlatan's first goal was a penalty and we will not sully this post on Zlatan, or Zlatan himself, with some boring goal he could score blindfolded in his sleep from the bed in his summer home in the afterlife. We will not do that to Zlatan.[beIN]