Gift Orban paints Europa Conference League with goals

By Saheed Afolabi

Gift Orban has shown that his goal-scoring run of recent isn’t a fluke as he scored a hat trick in Gent’s 4-1 crushing of Istanbul Basaksehir in the Europa Conference League.

Coming up from an impressive showing in the Belgian Pro League as he scored a haul against Zulte Waregem.

Despot a slow start to the game, Orban showed his finishing instinct as he scored a fantastic goal in the 31st minute through a counter-attacking move.

A minute later, Orban powered on a defensive blunder to score a classic goal to get his brace off the game.

The diminutive forward punished Istanbul Basaksehir with their lackluster defense by firing in a rebound to give Gent a comfortable lead in the game as he grabs his first hat trick.

Hugo Cupers later clinch the victory with a massive goal for Gent in the game.

Orban now has five goals in the Europa Conference League.

Gent has had eight points from six matches in Group F and seat in second position place.