Four shots. Four on target. Three goals. That is the complete shooting log for Alphadjo Cisse on a night Red Bull Salzburg had no answer for AC Milan in the Europa League.
The final score read 0-4, but the number that will stick is the one next to Cisse's name: a hat-trick built on total efficiency. Every attempt he had on goal found the frame. Most of them ended up in the net.
A night with no wasted effort
There was nothing scrappy about this performance. Strikers can go through entire matches without registering a shot on target, let alone converting three of four into goals. Cisse did not need a fifth attempt or a sixth. He simply made every touch in the box count.
His match rating of 9.2 tells its own story, the kind of number reserved for nights when a single player decides the outcome before the final whistle.
Salzburg left chasing shadows
For Red Bull Salzburg, the concession of four goals at home will sting, but it was Cisse specifically who turned the contest into a one-man exhibition. Three goals from four shots is not a tally built on volume or luck. It is precision, repeated three times in the same ninety minutes.
AC Milan will take the three points and the goal difference boost from a convincing away win in the Europa League. Cisse will take the match ball, and a performance that ranks among the most clinical a BSD tracker has logged all season.