Mbappe struck before halftime to put the French side 2-0 up in the last 16 tie and it created many chances to extend its lead as it dominated the first hour of the game.

Benzema equalised in the 61st minute, however, following a bad error from PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma who mishandled the ball inside the area and gifted it to the French striker.

Roared on by a sold-out crowd at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium and with PSG in panic mode, Benzema scored again in the 76th minute from Luka Modric’s pass and grabbed his third two minutes later after another costly mistake by a PSG defender to send the record 13-time European champions into the last eight.

“We lost in the first leg, we were losing at the break … It was very hard, but this is a Champions League match and we are Real Madrid,” Benzema told reporters.

“The comeback came due to a matter of mental strength. It was not a mistake by Donnarumma, it was my pressure on him. When we pressure like that, we can beat anyone. Every game is a final for us and today we saw that Real are alive.”