Top 6 Greatest Comebacks in Football History

Top 6 Greatest Comebacks in Football History

Football is a game of heightened emotions and to the players things could get really heated up so fast. In football all hope is not lost until the final whistle and some teams have gone ahead to prove how correct this claim is. Today we will be considering the top 6 greatest comebacks in the history of the beautiful game of professional football:

6. Liverpool vs Real Madrid UCL 2023:

On this day, Liverpool took the game by its throat as they saw it

as the golden opportunity they have to met out an humiliating

amount of punishment on the great whites of Santiago Bernabeu.

Liverpool started with a 2:0 lead within the first 15 minutes of the

game, but things took a different turn as Real Madrid came back

into the game and equalized as it became a 2:2 draw at half time.

Only God knows what Carlo Ancelloti told his boys as they came

to the pitch for the second half with only one intent ‘to ruin

Liverpool ‘. The game ended with Madrid running whatever angel

walked in with Liverpool as they won the match with a 5:2 win over the Red Devils.

5. Liverpool vs Barcelona UCL Semi finals 2019:

Both teams had initially met at camp Nou for the first leg and the match ended in favour of Barcelona where they won Liverpool with 3 goals to Nil. The match which saw Messi net in an amazing free kick goal.

In the second leg at Anfield, Liverpool pulled a goal before halftime, Gigi wijnaldum added extra 2 goals which made them a goal shy of qualifying, Trent Alexander Arnold was able to properly convert a counter attack in favor of his team as Origi was given the assist which helped secure the winning goal for Liverpool.

That season, Liverpool won the UEFA champions league.

4. AS Roma vs FC Barcelona UCL 2018:

Barcelona was believed to be the preferred team and they went ahead to prove how amazing they were by trashing AS Roma in the first leg of their meeting.

The match ended 4:1 in favor of Barcelona at Camp Nou.

In the second leg of their quarter finals meeting, AS Roma came in with hopes of a miracle happening and Miraculously, they were able to convert every chance they had to a goal as they eventually won the game at 3 goals with no response from Barca which in turn knocked Barca out of the Champions league.

3. Liverpool vs AC Milan UCL final 2005:

within the first 60 seconds of the game, AC Milan scored their first first goal and by half time, they were up 3:0.

Liverpool came in with a different spirit and mindset as all they could see was that trophy in their chambers the following day. Within the first 3 minutes of the second half, Liverpool scored 3 goals and Liverpool eventually won that game on penalties.

2. Barcelona vs PSG UCL 2017:

Barcarolle had lost their first leg meeting in the most humiliating manner at Le Parc Des Princes in Paris at a 4-0 loss to PSG.

The second legs was a mat h at Camp Nou and it started well for Barcelona with a goal by Luis Suarez in the 3rd minute. Barca scored two goaks before half time and only needed 2 extra goals to earn an extra time fighting chance. Before the 50th minute Barca had scored a third goal and by the 87th minute it was PSG 1 Barca 3 meaning Barca needed 3 extra goals to qualify for the finals. By extra time,Barca scored the 3 needed goals which saw them through to the finals.

1. Argentina vs France FIFA World Cup final 2022:

Lionel Messi opened the floor for goals by scoring a brilliant penalty and giving an amazing assist to Di Maria which led to the second goal in less than 15 minutes.

Mbappe gave France hope again from the penalty spot and they scored a beautiful volley in than 3 minutes after the first goal.

Another goal from Messi gave Argentina the much needed confidence of winning the Final game and that was quite short lived as Kylian Mbappe got his first World Cup Final Hat trick buying some extra hope for France.

The match eventually went to penalties but God was obviously on

Argentina’s side as several loss and misses from France gave Messi and Argentina their well deserved World Cup win.