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Hat trick hero Andy Carroll was unplayable against Arsenal

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Arsenal scored three goals on Saturday, but on the other end of the pitch, they had absolutely no answer for Andy Carroll. The West Ham United striker was absolutely unplayable, and he scored a hat trick.

And these weren’t Carroll’s only big moments of the game. He set up a wrongly disallowed goal with a flicked header, and assisted another that was waved off for a foul after the ball had gone into the back of the net. He had a number of big set piece clearances in his own box too, and his hold-up play let Dimitri Payet and Manuel Lanzini get into the attack constantly. It was Carroll’s best performance of the season by far, and it’ll have Roy Hodgson wondering if the big Hammmers target man is worth taking to Euro 2016.

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