Eberechi Eze made history by becoming the first player to score a Premier League hat-trick in the North London derby during Arsenal’s victory against Tottenham on Sunday.

Arsenal forward Eze, who rejected a move to Spurs in August in favour of a £60 million transfer to the Emirates from Crystal Palace, netted a 35-minute hat-trick in his first derby appearance against the Gunners’ local rivals.

Despite the fixture boasting attacking talents of the calibre of Ian Wright, Thierry Henry, Robin van Persie, Jurgen Klinsmann, Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane, no Arsenal or Spurs player had scored a league hat-trick in this encounter since Alan Sunderland for the Gunners in Dec 1978.

Only one Spurs player – Terry Dyson in Aug 1961 – has scored a North London derby hat-trick, but Eze became only the third Arsenal player (Ted Drake the first in Oct 1934) to achieve that feat with his match-winning contribution for Mikel Arteta’s Premier League leaders.