Real Madrid pulled off one of the great Champions League comebacks on Wednesday, as Karim Benzema scored a breathtaking hat trick to upstage Kylian Mbappe and eliminate Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16.
Madrid was set to be the latest victim of another Mbappe masterclass, after the 23-year-old ran the Spanish giant ragged for the better part of an hour and scored to put PSG ahead 1-0 on the night and 2-0 on aggregate.
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