as well as moving aston villa up one place in the premier league table on tuesday night, christian benteke's hat trick against qpr was also a triumph for the top flight's belgian contingent the 24 year old's treble accounted for the 46th, 47th and 48th goals scored by players from belgium this season, making them the third most prolific nation in the division benteke's goals   which arrived in a memorable 3 3 draw at villa park   moved belgium above france (46 goals) and within 19 of second placed spain (67 goals) aston villa striker christian benteke celebrates after scoring his third goal against qpr on tuesday  benteke's hat trick earned villa a point and moved belgium into third place for premier league goals this term  eden hazard has helped belgium's cause with with 12 goals for chelsea   including this penalty against stoke  belgium's total has been aided by the form of chelsea's eden hazard, who has struck 12 times in the premier league to help jose mourinho's men to the top of the table tottenham winger nacer chadli and everton striker romelu lukaku   both of whom are international team mates of benteke and hazard   have also chipped in with eight goals apiece, while kevin mirallas, marouane fellaini, mousa dembele and toby alderweireld have also been on target spain have the likes of chelsea's diego costa (19 goals) and manchester city playmaker david silva (11 goals) to thank for their tally, although they still sit miles behind runaway leaders england diego costa scores one of the 67 goals scored by players with spanish nationality against southampton  manchester city midfielder david silva has netted 11 top flight goals so far this season  a total of 255 goals have been scored by 81 different english players during the current campaign, with tottenham's latest hero harry kane (19) and qpr hitman charlie austin (17) leading the way three lions captain wayne rooney and under 21 star saido berahino have both netted 12 goals this season, with liverpool trio steven gerrard, jordan henderson and raheem sterling pitching in with six goals each france sit fourth on the list, boosted by 14 goals from arsenal forward olivier giroud and five each from swansea's bafetimbi gomis and chelsea striker loic remy harry kane has contributed to england's tally of 255 goals this season with 19 strikes for tottenham  qpr striker charlie austin netted the most recent goal scored by an englishman against villa on tuesday  olivier giroud, pictured celebrating a goal against liverpool, is the top scoring frenchman so far this season  argentina complete the top five on 37 goals, the vast majority of which have arrived from manchester city's main man sergio aguero (17 goals) senegal (35 goals), scotland (28) and ivory coast (22) come next on the list, with holland (19), brazil (18), the republic of ireland (18) and chile (17)   helped by the goalscoring form of alexis sanchez   further down players from 46 countries have found the back of the net this season, with a total of 800 goals scored so far england 255  spain 67  belgium 48  france 46  argentina 37  senegal 35  scotland 28  ivory coast 22  holland 19  brazil 18  republic of ireland 18  chile 17  croatia 11  serbia 11  denmark 10  italy 10  nigeria 10  wales 9  austria 8  germany 8  south korea 7  iceland 5  montenegro 5  uruguay 5  bosnia 4  colombia 4  ecuador 4  cameroon 3  ghana 3  kenya 3  sweden 3  algeria 2  czech republic 2  new zealand 2  egypt 2  norway 2  togo 2  benin 1  congo dr 1  jamaica 1  japan 1  poland 1  portugal 1  morocco 1  northern ireland 1  slovakia 1 
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aston villa striker christian benteke scored three against qpr on tuesday . players from belgium have now netted 48 premier league goals this term . english players have scored 255 goals   almost four times more than spain . a total of nine nations have just a single top flight goal this season . players from 46 countries have scored a total of 800 goals during 2014 15 