Real's Vinicius grabs hat-trick in 5-2 comeback win over Dortmund

Real Madrid fought backmost from 2 goals down arsenic Vinicius Jr grabbed a hat-trick successful a thrilling 5-2 triumph implicit visitors Borussia Dortmund successful the Champions League connected Tuesday.

In a rematch of last-season's final, Dortmund lit up the crippled with a two-goal blitz astir the half-hour people from Donyell Malen and Jamie Gittens to soundlessness the Bernabeu crowd.

However, the champions were livelier aft the interruption and broke Dortmund's absorption with Antonio Ruediger's header connected the hr earlier Vinicius equalised with a close-range strike.

Lucas Vazquez enactment Real up successful the 83rd with an unstoppable onslaught aft a counter-attack and Vinicius, with 2 pieces of idiosyncratic Brazilian brilliance, wrapped up the triumph to permission his broadside level with Dortmund connected six points from 3 games.

"(The concealed to the comeback) was believing successful ourselves. We cognize that astatine home, with our fans, thing tin happen," Vinicius, who is successful contention to triumph the Ballon d'Or grant for the champion subordinate successful the satellite connected Monday, told Movistar Plus.

"When we got to the dressing room, we were each precise quiet, we lone listened to the manager (Carlo Ancelotti) ... and lone 1 happening was said: 'If we people the archetypal goal, we're going to travel backmost again'. And we did.

"Thanks to the fans and to the team, who near everything connected the pitch. But we person to amended and play similar that from the start, different the manager won't beryllium capable to instrumentality it anymore."

Still figuring retired the perfect lineup and enactment for a Real midfield missing the originative endowment of Toni Kroos, who retired astatine the extremity of past season, Ancelotti reverted to his accustomed 4-3-3 aft trying retired a strategy with 3 centre-backs successful an unconvincing 2-1 triumph implicit Celta Vigo successful LaLiga astatine the weekend.

However, aft a promising archetypal fractional hr successful which Real looked coagulated astatine the backmost and successful power of the match, Dortmund took vantage of a deficiency of attraction by the location defence to people doubly successful the abstraction of 4 minutes.

Real looked arsenic stunned arsenic the location fans, anxiously missing respective chances, and were often exposed by counter-attacks, with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois making superb saves to contradict efforts from Gittens and Julian Brandt earlier the break.

The hosts came backmost amended organised aft the interval, showing the urgency they intelligibly lacked successful the opening period, and got immoderate assistance from 2 head-scratching substitutions from Dortmund manager Nuri Sahin aboriginal successful the 2nd half.

He replaced scorers Malen and Gittens with defender Waldemar Anton and holding midfielder Pascal Gross, leaving his broadside toothless up front, and from that constituent it was each downhill for the German broadside who succumbed to the unit Real piled on.

Ruediger's header and a Vinicius tap-in 2 minutes aboriginal had lifted the assemblage and it was a substance of clip until Vazquez gave Real the lead, with Vinicius capping the comeback with unstoppable strikes successful the 86th and 93rd minutes.
It was the Brazilian's 3rd hat-trick for Real successful each competitions and his archetypal successful the Champions League.

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