U.S. teenager Matthew Hoppe scored a hat trick to end Schalke 04's 30-match winless run as he inspired a 4-0 victory over Hoffenheim.
Schalke went into the match knowing anything but a victory would see them level the all-time winless record run in the German top flight, set by amateur side Tasmania Berlin in 1965-66.
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But Hoppe, 19, ensured Schalke would not go into the history books as he became the first American to score a hat trick in the Bundesliga and the third to do so in any of Europe's top five leagues.