Vinicius Junior's hat-trick inspires Real Madrid to Champions League comeback against Borussia Dortmund

Real Madrid bounced back from their MD2 defeat against Lille by defeating Borussia Dortmund at the Santiago Bernabeu. Carlo Ancelotti's team had to fight back in this one, eventually running out 5-2 winners.

The visitors struck first on the half hour courtesy of Donyell Malen, and the Dutch striker turned provider a few minutes later to set up Jamie Bynoe-Gittens. That had given Dortmund a dream start, but Real Madrid was woken up in the second period.

Antonio Rudiger went home an excellent Kylian Mbappe cross to make it 2-1 after an hour, first Vinicius Junior made it 2-2 just a few minutes later. In 84 minutes, Lucas Vazquez completed the turnaround for Real Madrid.

Vinicius took over the kingdom in the dying stages. At first, he scored a wonderful solo goal for 4-2, before completing his hat-trick in stoppage time.

It was not simple to Real Madridbut they prevailed in the end. This result should also provide a very good momentum ahead of this weekend's Clasico, which is also at the Bernabeu.