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| Marseille’s Brazilian forward Brandao (right) celebrates after scoring against Inter during their second leg Champions League round of 16 football match in Milan’s San Siro Stadium on Tuesday |
Bayern struck seven goals for the second successive match, and Gomez went one better than his hat-trick Saturday in the 7-1 win over Hoffenheim with a first-half goal and three more within 17 minutes as Bayern tore Basel apart for a 7-1 aggregate.
In Milan, Marseille triumphed on the away goals rule on a 2-2 aggregate score despite going down 2-1.
Bayern and Marseille join defending champions Barcelona, AC Milan, Benfica and APOEL Nicosia in the quarter-finals.
Bayern tore Basel apart at the Allianz Arena for the club’s highest win in the Champions League.
Bayern soon cancelled out a 1-0 defeat in Switzerland when Arjen Robben drove in the first goal after 10 minutes before providing a cross from the right which Thomas Mueller turned in on 42 minutes.
Gomez put the game beyond Basel’s reach with a goal from close range a minute before the interval before the Germany striker punished a crumbling Basel defence with three in the second half to take his Champions League tally for the season to 10 and Robben notched his second.
Gomez got an acrobatic touch to the ball to convert a Franck Ribery cross five minutes after the break and completed his hat-trick when he nodded in another Ribery cross in the 61st minute.
The French midfielder was again the provider for Bayern’s sixth, in the 67th, feeding the ball to Gomez who swept home with a left-foot shot into the roof of the net.
“We really put our foot down and created an incredible amount of pressure. All in all it was an outstanding game from us,” Gomez said.
Bayern equalled Barcelona’s seven against Leverkusen nine minutes from time when Bastian Schweinsteiger - on in the 70th minute for Mueller - threaded a pass to Robben who rounded keeper Yann Sommer for his second.
Gomez is the first German to score four goals in a Champions League match and only Lionel Messi (12), whose five goals in the 7-1 thrashing of Bayer Leverkusen last week, has more in a single game.
In Milan, Diego Milito gave Inter a 75th-minute lead to cancel out a 1-0 loss in Marseille, but 88th-minute substitute Brandao got the important away goal in the second-minute of stoppage time when a long ball from keeper Steve Mandanda came off his back and he reacted quickly to drive the ball home.
“I thank god and the whole squad I scored that goal. I want to thank the fans too, who came here to support us,” Brandao said.
“I didn’t see the ball when it bounced off my back. I just saw it was in my path and stroked it past the goalkeeper.”
In a hectic closing stage, Inter got a second in the sixth minute of the added period with a penalty from Giampaolo Pazzini after he had been brought down in the area by Mandanda, earning the keeper a second booking and dismissal.
Marseille coach Didier Deschamps said. “We had tough moments in this game and struggled to score. When I put him (Brandao) on, he told me he would score. It’s fabulous. I think we were great.”