THIS guy is some Finn special.

Teemu Pukki is a player many Premier League fans may not have known, despite tearing up the Championship last season.

4 Teemu Pukki scored a hat-trick as Norwich beat Newcastle 3-1 Credit: PA:Press Association

But they are wising up fast to the Norwich striker’s talents after he made it FOUR goals in two top-flight games with an exquisite hat-trick.

The 29-year-old from Kotka, Finland, was far too hot for inept Newcastle to handle.

His clever movement bamboozled the visitors throughout and were it not for Toon stopper Martin Dubvraka, Pukki would have netted long before his 33rd-minute exocet volley.

He looked full of confidence after opening his Prem account in the 4-1 loss at Anfield last week.

The ex-Celtic man’s second proved just as much as he cheekily found the corner by drilling through Emil Krafth’s legs just after the hour.

The third was a gift, really, from Newcastle’s statue-like defenders - but still he finished it off coolly with his left foot.

Pukki had already been dubbed one of the best signings ever after arriving at Carrow Road last summer on a free and then hitting 29 league goals to fire Norwich to promotion.

But with his fourth decade just around the corner, there were question marks whether he could reproduce that kind of form in the big league.

4 The striker was in sublime form to inspire his side to victory Credit: Reuters

Particularly as his club had made a net spend of less than a million quid in improving the squad.

Yet if he, and they, can keep this up, then the Canaries could well make a mockery of the pundits’ predictions of relegation - and Pukki can threaten the goal charts.

Then again, they are unlikely to have it so easy this season.

Steve Bruce’s side were dreadful.

For every neat, ten-yard pass from Daniel Farke’s men, a Newcastle player would lump it up the pitch in the vague direction of Joelinton.

It is early days for the Brazilian, signed for a club-record £40million from Hoffenheim in the summer, and built like a rugby player.

He will get better - he has to.

But in East Anglia the striker had a touch more befitting of a prop-forward than a centre-forward.

And if you had no prior knowledge about Pukki and Joelinton’s respective transfer fees, you would never have guessed the Toon man was the multi-million buy and Pukki the freebie.

Bruce made a controversial decision on his return to Norwich, the club he left to join Manchester United in 1987, by benching Sean Longstaff.

4 £40m man Joelinton had a game to forget in attack for the visitors Credit: Reuters

Geordie Longstaff had made such an impression in his nine league games last term that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wanted to take him to Old Trafford in the summer.

Bruce opted for Ki Sung-Yueng, perhaps in a bid for more creativity.

It proved to be a mistake as Ki unlocked nothing and Longstaff’s legs were missed in a midfield that Norwich passed through with ease.

The hosts’ rapid, short passes had Newcastle chasing shadows and it was a surprise the opener took as long as it did.

A clever turn and shot by Todd Cantwell was denied by Dubravka from close range, before Pukki fired wide and then was also denied by the Slovakian stopper.

Newcastle should have taken an undeserved lead shortly after when Isaac Hayden picked out Joelinton, who had outjumped ex-Toon centre-back Grant Hanley at the far post.

But the 23-year-old headed poorly wide in an action that would sum up his afternoon.

The Carrow Road crowd, watching Premier League football for the first time in two seasons, did not have to wait much longer to celebrate their first home goal back in the top flight.

And it came through that man Pukki as he blasted a stunning volley after Newcastle failed to clear a corner that Dubravka could do nothing about.

4 Steve Bruce's side were dire in the one-sided defeat Credit: Reuters

But it is not just for his goals that the Canaries faithful love Pukki.

He works himself into the ground too, epitomised by how he raced back to his own half to dispossess the luckless Joelinton just before the break after Hanley had slipped over.

Joelinton showed his frustration with a naughty foul on Max Aarons soon after and was booked.

Sadly for 2,000 travelling Toon fans, things just got worse after the break.

Few of them wanted Bruce when Mike Ashley appointed him in the summer and this performance will have only increased the level of resentment on Tyneside.

It was game over on 63 minutes as Cantwell drove forward and gave it to Pukki, who poked into the corner from the edge of the area.

The strike had the deadly accuracy Alan Shearer would be proud of, and later in the game the home fans would be taunting the Toon legend over the one-sided scoreline.

The afternoon for Newcastle’s latest No9, meanwhile, was mercifully cut short when Bruce hooked him on 67 minutes with no doubt much to ponder.

Ten minutes later and Pukki had his treble - the first in the Premier League from a Norwich player since Efan Ekoku in 1993 - as he exposed some lax defending to stroke home.

Shelvey curled in a consolation in injury-time to score the first goal of the Bruce era.

That will be short-lived if his side put in many more displays like this shocker.

While Pukki has picked up in the Prem where he left off in the Championship - and more than proved he can finish at this level.