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Breaking: Benzema’s hat-trick sends Madrid through, PSG out

Benzema grabs hat-trick for Madrid
Benzema grabs hat-trick for Madrid

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Madrid drew level on 61 minutes as  a mistake from the defence gifted a chance to a lurking Benzema, who kept his cool and rolled the ball into the net from close range.

Karim Benzema struck a hat-trick as Real Madrid dumped PSG out of Champions League on a 3-1 victory on Tuesday.

Madrid thus go through on 4-2 aggregate.

The first leg had ended 1-0 in favour of PSG in France two weeks ago.

The visitors opened scoring at the Benabeu Stadium through Kylian Mbappe. Neymar played a fantastic through ball that found Mbappe, who reacted quickly to get in front of the goalkeeper and fired a close-range shot into the bottom left corner.

Madrid drew level on 61 minutes as  a mistake from the defence gifted a chance to a lurking Benzema, who kept his cool and rolled the ball into the net from close range.

Benzema gave Madrid 2-1 lead on 76 minutes, picking up the ball inside the box, found himself in a good position and fired in a shot which is deflected past Gianluigi Donnarumma.
The Madrid striker made it 3-1 for his club as he fired the rebound into the bottom right corner after the ball broke to him in the box two minutes later.
Madrid has thus qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions league.

 

 

 

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