updated 12:13 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2012
LONDON - Clint Dempsey became the first American to score a hat trick in England's Premier League, helping Fulham rally from a halftime deficit to rout Newcastle 5-2 Saturday.
Dempsey put Fulham ahead 2-1 in the 59th minute with his 50th goal for Fulham, got his second in the 65th and completed the scoring on a breakaway from Bobby Zamora's pass in the 89th.
Dempsey, a 28-year-old from Nacogdoches, Texas, has a career-best 15 goals this season, including nine in the Premier League. He had scored his first hat trick in England on Jan. 7 against Charlton in the third round of the FA Cup.
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