Massachusetts, June 27 -- France superstar and 2025 Ballon d'Or winner Ousmane Dembele still prefers his previous outings against Senegal and Iraq in the FIFA World Cup, despite scoring a monumental hat-trick in his side's final group stage match against Norway on Friday.

Paris Saint-Germain star scripted history as he became the first player to net a first-half hat trick at the FIFA World Cup since Oleg Salenko in 1994. Dembele's hat-trick just 32 minutes into this game is the second earliest a player has scored a FIFA World Cup hat-trick in a match, behind Erich Probst in 1954 for Austria against Czechoslovakia (24 minutes), as per OptaJoe.

Following his side's win, Dembele told M6 outlet as quoted by Goal.com, that while the performa...