Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappé scored the second-fastest hat trick in Champions League history by netting three times in just under seven minutes at Olympiacos on Wednesday.

The France star added a fourth goal in the second half, and Madrid needed every one of them to hang on to beat the Greek side 4-3 on the road.

“It was very important to win again,” Mbappé said after the match. “We know that three games without a win is a lot for a team like us. It was a difficult game; it’s hard to win here. We started badly, losing the ball, we conceded the first goal, then we controlled it, we scored goals, and second half it was a bit back-and-forth, we scored, [then] they did.”

At 6 minutes, 42 seconds, Mbappé’s treble trails only Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, who was 30 seconds quicker with his hat trick against Rangers in October 2022.

Real Madrid were trailing 1-0 in Greece when Mbappé took over the contest in spectacular fashion.

He leveled the score in the 22nd minute, finishing low from the edge of the penalty area after being played through one-on-one with the goalkeeper. Mbappé’s second came less than two minutes later. The France forward rose powerfully in the box to head Arda Güler’s cross into the net.

In no time at all it was three. Mbappé latched onto another ball over the Olympiacos defense, this time from Eduardo Camavinga, and again finished with minimum fuss.

Not content with his first-half efforts, Mbappé added a fourth goal in the 59th minute.

“I’m very happy — scoring goals is always a pleasure,” Mbappé added. “My teammates gave me some good assists. I’m lucky to play with these players. I try to score always, and sometimes it happens, but sometimes it doesn’t.”

It was Mbappé’s second hat trick in the Champions League already this season, after he scored three times against Kairat Almaty in September. He now has five in total, the fourth-most ever. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo lead the way with eight, and Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski has six.

Mbappé sits fifth on the all-time Champions League scoring list and is now only eight shy of tying Real Madrid legend Raúl González in fourth.

The former Paris Saint-Germain forward came into Wednesday’s game without a goal in his previous three games for Madrid, with the Spanish giants failing to win any.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.