It was a sweet moment for the 34-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo as he once again put one over on his old rivals from the Spanish capital.
Ronaldo made the breakthrough in the 27th minute, levelled the aggregate score three minutes after halftime with another towering header and blasted home the decisive goal from a penalty with four minutes left to seal a 3-2 overall triumph.
Ronaldo scored all three goals in Juventus’ 3-0 win in Turin as they became only fourth team in Champions League history to progress after losing 2-0 in the first leg.
⏰ RESULTS ⏰
⚪️⚫️ Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick sends Juventus into last 8
🔵 Manchester City reach quarter-finals in style at home
🤔 Best performance?#UCL pic.twitter.com/BGinQjvxhu— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) March 12, 2019
As well as helping Juventus into the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Ronaldo made another piece of history.
After scoring with two headers, he converted a late penalty to complete his hat-trick – the eighth of his Champions League career. That moves him level with Lionel Messi.
When it comes to goals in the knockout stages of the Champions League, however, even Messi cannot come close to the Portuguese player.
He has now scored an amazing 63 goals at this stage of Europe’s premier club competition.
Messi is his closest rival with 40 goals and former Real Madrid hero Raul got 34 but Ronaldo now has three times as many goals as the next players on the list.
Cristiano Ronaldo now has eight #UCL hat-tricks.
That draws him level for the record with… Lionel Messi.
👀 https://t.co/t6AJpt140E#JUVATM #UCL pic.twitter.com/6llejw1cyN— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) March 12, 2019
Thanks to his efforts against Atletico, he will have the chance to add to them very soon.