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Comeback wins have occurred extra usually than ever within the Premier League for the reason that begin of final season, making 2024 a classic 12 months for followers of fightbacks – and a very testing one for Tottenham followers.
With 63 video games contributing, the 16.6% of matches to characteristic a victory from behind in 2023/24 represented the best share on document of contests through which it had occurred throughout an entire Premier League marketing campaign, in keeping with Opta.
By mid-October, the 2024/25 season was on a good greater tally of 17.1%. A number of extra epics have adopted, together with spirit-sappers for groups on the backside, one within the Manchester derby and seemingly inevitable distress for Spurs.
From Molineux to St Mary’s, 101GreatGoals.com takes a glance again at 10 of the best comebacks of the calendar 12 months.
ALL. ANGLES. COVERED. 🎥
Watch THIS Kobbie Mainoo stoppage-time winner, which gave the Crimson Devils an exhilarating 4-3 win over Wolves 🤩 pic.twitter.com/gP9Qv7NMov
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) February 2, 2024
📰 Desk Of Contents
1 Wolves 3-4 Manchester United, February 12 Bournemouth 4-3 Luton, March 133 Newcastle 4-3 West Ham, March 304 Chelsea 4-3 Manchester United, April 45 Everton 2-3 Bournemouth, August 316 Brighton & Hove Albion 3-2 Tottenham, October 67 Southampton 2-3 Leicester Metropolis, October 198 Brentford 4-3 Ipswich City, October 269 Tottenham 3-4 Chelsea, December 810 Manchester Metropolis 1-2 Manchester United, December 15
Wolves 3-4 Manchester United, February 1
Lengthy earlier than Wolves have been battling relegation and Erik ten Hag’s reign at Manchester United was mercifully ended, a 97th-minute Kobbie Mainoo winner cruelly denied Gary O’Neil’s aspect some extent they thought they’d gained two minutes earlier.
The now-exiled Marcus Rashford opened the scoring days after a whirl of newspaper reviews in regards to the striker having fun with an evening out in Belfast, and United appeared properly heading in the right direction for victory when Scott McTominay made it 3-1 after 75 minutes to offer them a two-goal lead for the second time.
After Max Kilman pulled one again, Pedro Neto equalised within the fifth minute of added time. Astonishingly, there was nonetheless time for Mainoo to twist within the deciding aim, launching a four-game successful run for Ten Hag that will finish with a 97th-minute house defeat to Fulham on February 24.
Bournemouth 4-3 Luton, March 13
Greater than 20 years after a top-flight staff final recovered from three behind to win – Wolves at house to Leicester Metropolis, in 2003 – Bournemouth repeated the trick at Luton, recovering from a 3-0 half-time deficit.
Dominic Solanke began the comeback 5 minutes after the break, with Illia Zabarnyi including one other within the 62nd minute and Antoine Semenyo scoring within the Sixty fourth and 83rd minutes.
Good morning 😍😍😍 pic.twitter.com/ie9JE2OkCx
— AFC Bournemouth 🍒 (@afcbournemouth) March 14, 2024
“As soon as we rating the primary one, everybody begins believing,” Cherries supervisor Andoni Iraola informed Sky Sports activities. Luton would let in 85 objectives on their approach to relegation.
Newcastle 4-3 West Ham, March 30
Reacting in fashion to Alexander Isak’s sixth-minute opener for Newcastle, West Ham equalised quarter-hour later via Michail Antonio and muddied the half-time temper among the many house followers by taking the lead via Muhammed Kudus, whose strike after 54 minutes and two seconds was the second-latest first-half aim in Premier League historical past.
These Toon followers might need wished they’d not re-emerged for the second half when Jarrod Bowen put West Ham 3-1 forward after 48 minutes, a bonus they retained till Isak transformed his second spot kick with 13 minutes remaining.
Newcastle’s introduction of Harvey Barnes halfway via the second half finally proved pivotal. Isak set the winger up for his first contained in the field seven minutes from time, and his spectacular long-range Ninetieth-minute winner gave his staff their first win from being two objectives down in 5 years.
UNBELIEVABLEEE!!! 🤩
Harvey Barnes makes it 4-3 Newcastle! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/taq6oOePdk
— Soccer on TNT Sports activities (@footballontnt) March 30, 2024
Chelsea 4-3 Manchester United, April 4
Throughout a dizzying particular person season, Cole Palmer scored two of the ten newest Premier League objectives on document to thwart what had been an admirable comeback by Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.
Objectives by Conor Gallagher and Palmer put the hosts 2-0 forward after 19 minutes, with Alejandro Garnacho and Bruno Fernandes drawing United stage by the thirty ninth minute and Garnacho including one other with 23 minutes of normal time to play.
9 minutes and 18 seconds of added time had handed when Palmer scored the ninth-latest aim among the many data with an equaliser that will have left most Chelsea followers pleased with the end result. His second, after 100 minutes and 39 seconds, was the third-latest general and the most recent ever to win a sport.
Man Utd gamers noticed the hazard… 🔎
However they couldn’t cease Cole Palmer One hundred and first-minute winner! 🥶 pic.twitter.com/NTCZof0gp3
— Premier League (@premierleague) April 7, 2024
Everton 2-3 Bournemouth, August 31
Having misplaced each of their opening video games of the season with out scoring, Everton appeased the vast majority of Goodison Park by scoring twice inside eight minutes via Michael Keane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin to ascertain a 2-0 lead over Bournemouth.
After Antoine Semenyo’s 87th-minute reply and Lewis Cook dinner’s 92nd-minute header to attract Bournemouth stage, the Cherries had time for Marcus Tavernier and Semenyo to go near a winner earlier than Luis Sinisterra headed in Justin Kluivert’s cross within the 97th minute.
The end result prolonged Everton’s look forward to a primary win in August since 2021 to 11 video games. There was extra anguish of their subsequent sport, spurning a 2-0 result in lose 3-2 at Aston Villa.
Brighton & Hove Albion 3-2 Tottenham, October 6
In a sport between groups recognized for riskily excessive defensive strains, Tottenham appeared strongly positioned to observe up their 3-0 win at Manchester United with one other away victory after Brennan Johnson and James Maddison put them 2-0 forward at half-time.
Brighton had taken the lead earlier than having their shortfalls badly uncovered in a 4-2 defeat at Chelsea eight days earlier, however The Seagulls confirmed their attacking verve to attain 3 times in 19 minutes after the break, beginning with Yankuba Minteh’s Forty eighth-minute strike.
“From nowhere to on prime of the world!” 🤯
Brighton flip it round! Welbeck heads house! 💥 pic.twitter.com/gI1MUWCLzr
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) October 6, 2024
Georginio Rutter and Danny Welbeck accomplished the comeback to depart Ange Postecoglou ashen-faced as he trudged throughout the pitch at full time. The visiting supervisor described his gamers’ efficiency as “unacceptable” and “in all probability” the worst of his tenure.
Southampton 2-3 Leicester Metropolis, October 19
Southampton had misplaced their earlier two matches in opposition to Leicester by an mixture rating of 9-1, with Jamie Vardy enhancing his document to eight objectives and 4 assists in 19 league appearances in opposition to them.
Cameron Archer and Joe Aribo’s first-half objectives appeared to have put the Saints properly heading in the right direction for a measure of revenge even after Facundo Buonanotte’s Sixty fourth-minute reply.
Ryan Fraser’s dismissal 17 minutes from time prefaced the Foxes haunting their opponents once more. Vardy transformed the ensuing penalty to equalise, and Jordan Ayew’s 98th-minute winner was one other nail within the coffin for Southampton supervisor Russell Martin’s spell on the membership.
“Generally you don’t want a set-piece coach!”@Carra23 on Jordan Ayew’s 98th minute winner for Leicester in opposition to Southampton on Saturday ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/6WWr4LY89i
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) October 21, 2024
Brentford 4-3 Ipswich City, October 26
One other sport through which each groups got here again, with Ipswich – searching for a primary win of the season – maybe scoring too early when Sam Szmodics and George Hirst put them 2-0 forward after 31 minutes.
Yoane Wissa netted twice in three minutes to convey Brentford stage earlier than half-time, and Bryan Mbeumo’s penalty six minutes after the break appeared to have turned the sport round till Liam Delap equalised 4 minutes from the top of normal time.
🇨🇲🪄 Bryan Mbeumo’s 90+6′ winner for Brentford in opposition to Ipswich! 😎 pic.twitter.com/eaNMxfTLBc
— EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) October 26, 2024
Mbeumo was the hero within the 96th minute as Brentford proved they could possibly be potent following Ivan Toney’s exit, though supervisor Thomas Frank described himself as “irritated” afterwards. “They have been by far the higher staff for the primary 40 minutes,” he mentioned of City. “There was just one staff on the pitch – considered one of our worst ever within the Premier League.”
Tottenham 3-4 Chelsea, December 8
It’s an unlucky reflection of Tottenham’s defending this season that they’re the one staff to maintain two defeats on this listing and collected each of them inside the house of little greater than two months.
After a rancorous 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth three days earlier, Tottenham capitalised on two Marc Cucurella errors to maneuver 2-0 in entrance after 19 minutes at house to Chelsea by way of objectives from Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski.
“Coolness PERSONIFIED” 🥶
Cole Palmer with a Panenka penalty to place the sport past all doubt! pic.twitter.com/JE96MpFUrr
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 8, 2024
Cucurella arrange Jadon Sancho for a swift reply earlier than two second-half Palmer penalties both aspect of an Enzo Fernandez aim put Chelsea out of sight. Son Heung-min, who scored throughout added time, mentioned afterwards that Spurs have been in a “darkish tunnel”.
Manchester Metropolis 1-2 Manchester United, December 15
In a sport that was arguably extra memorable for Ruben Amorim than anybody else watching, the Portuguese gained his first Manchester derby with a victory on enemy territory impressed by Amad Diallo.
Josko Gvardiol’s header had given out-of-form Metropolis a first-half lead, however Bruno Fernandes equalised two minutes from time with a penalty following a Matheus Nunes foul on Amad, who hit United’s second from a decent angle within the Ninetieth minute.
AMAD DIALLO PUTS MAN UNITED AHEAD IN THE 90TH MINUTE! 🌟 pic.twitter.com/Q3I684gEDz
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 15, 2024
It was the most recent right into a sport {that a} staff who’re reigning champions have led in a Premier League sport and misplaced. Metropolis additionally obtained an unwelcome reminder of their 3-3 draw at house to Feyenoord within the Champions League in October, once they have been 3-0 forward with 27 minutes remaining and conceded an 89th-minute equaliser.
