Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang grabbed a hat-trick as Borussia Dortmund crushed Benfica 4-0 on Wednesday to advance to the Champions League quarter-finals.

The Gabon international, who endured a dreadful evening in the first leg defeat, missing a number of chances and having a penalty saved, was back to his lethal best. He struck either side of a Christian Pulisic goal before adding another late in the game as the German side secured a 4-1 aggregate victory and made the last eight of the competition for the third time in 10 years.

It was the third successive match in which Aubameyang has scored at least twice as Benfica conceded their first goals from open play in more than 700 minutes and saw a seven-game winning run brought to an end.

Dortmund, who were missing the injured Mario Göetze and Marco Reus, took only four minutes to bring the tie level as the Bundesliga’s leading scorer headed Ousmane Dembélé’s floated corner in at the far post.

Benfica needed time to recover and free themselves from the hosts’ constant pressing game and made their first serious foray into the German half after half an hour, with Luisão’s header saved by the goalkeeper Roman Bürki. At the other end, Aubameyang was twice denied by Ederson early in the second half but the Brazilian goalkeeper could do nothing when the American teenager Pulisic, in the team to replace the Reus, dinked the ball over him on the hour for his maiden goal in the Champions League .

Aubameyang struck his second of the evening three minutes later before completing a hat-trick from close range in the 85th minute to kill off the tie.