Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has grabbed a hat-trick in a crushing 4-0 win by Borussia Dortmund over Benfica to advance to the Champions League quarter-finals 4-1 on aggregate.
The Gabon international, who endured a dreadful evening in the 1-0 first leg loss in which he missed a hatful of chances and had a penalty saved, was back to his lethal best on Wednesday.
He struck either side of a Christian Pulisic goal and added another late in the game as the German side, European champions in 1997, made the last eight of the competition for the third time in 10 years.
It was the third straight match in which Aubameyang scored at least twice as Benfica, aiming to reach the last eight for third time in six seasons, conceded their first goals from open play in more than 700 minutes and ended their seven-game winning run.
The hosts, missing injured Mario Goetze and Marco Reus, took only four minutes to bring the tie level, with the Bundesliga's leading scorer heading in at the far post after Ousmane Dembele floated in a corner.
Benfica needed time to recover and free themselves from the hosts' constant pressing game.
They made their first serious foray into the German half after half an hour with Luisao seeing his header saved by keeper Roman Buerki.
Aubameyang was twice denied by keeper Ederson early in the second half but the Brazilian could do nothing when American teenager Pulisic, replacing injured Reus, dinked the ball over the keeper on the hour for his maiden Champions League goal.
The 27-year-old grabbed his second of the evening and a club record 24th goal in the competition this season only three minutes later and completed a hat-trick from close range in the 85th to kill off the tie.
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