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Ten of the greatest Premier League comeback wins in 2024

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Contents
Wolves 3-4 Manchester United, February 1Bournemouth 4-3 Luton, March 13Newcastle 4-3 West Ham, March 30Chelsea 4-3 Manchester United, April 4Everton 2-3 Bournemouth, August 31Brighton & Hove Albion 3-2 Tottenham, October 6Southampton 2-3 Leicester City, October 19Brentford 4-3 Ipswich Town, October 26Tottenham 3-4 Chelsea, December 8Manchester City 1-2 Manchester United, December 15

Comeback victories have happened more often than ever in the Premier League since the start of last season, making 2024 a vintage year for fightback fans – and a particularly trying year for Tottenham fans.

With 63 matches contributing, the 16.6% of matches featuring a come-from-behind victory in 2023/24 represented the highest ever percentage of competitions in which this had happened across an entire Premier League campaign, according to Opta.

As of mid-October, the 2024/25 season showed an even higher rate of 17.1%. Several other epics followed, including mind blowers for bottom-of-the-table teams, one in the Manchester derby and seemingly inevitable misery for Spurs.

From Molineux to St Mary’s, 101GreatGoals.com looks back at 10 of the biggest comebacks of the calendar year.

Wolves 3-4 Manchester United, February 1

Long before Wolves battled relegation and Erik ten Hag’s reign at Manchester United mercifully came to an end, a 97th-minute winner from Kobbie Mainoo cruelly denied Gary O’Neil’s side a point that they thought they had won two minutes earlier.

Marcus Rashford, now in exile, opened the scoring days after a whirlwind of newspaper reports that the striker was enjoying a night out in Belfast, and United looked well on their way to victory when Scott McTominay scored at 3-1 after 75 minutes to give them a double. -goal in advance for the second time.

After Max Kilman pulled one back, Pedro Neto equalized in the fifth minute of injury time. Amazingly, there was still time for Mainoo to score the decisive goal, kicking off a four-game winning run for Ten Hag that would end in a 97th-minute home defeat to Fulham on February 24.

Bournemouth 4-3 Luton, March 13

More than 20 years after a top team last came back from three down to win – Wolves at home to Leicester City, in 2003 – Bournemouth repeated the feat at Luton, recovering from a 3-0 halftime deficit.

Dominic Solanke started the comeback five minutes after the break, with Illia Zabarnyi adding another in the 62nd minute and Antoine Semenyo scoring in the 64th and 83rd minutes.

“Once we scored first, everyone started to believe it,” Cherries manager Andoni Iraola told Sky Sports. Luton would score 85 goals en route to relegation.

Newcastle 4-3 West Ham, March 30

Reacting in style to Alexander Isak’s sixth-minute opener for Newcastle, West Ham equalized 15 minutes later through Michail Antonio and dampened the half-time mood among the home fans by taking the lead through to Muhammed Kudus, whose goal after 54 minutes and two seconds was the penultimate first-half goal in Premier League history.

Those Toon fans might have wished they hadn’t reappeared in the second half when Jarrod Bowen put West Ham 3-1 ahead after 48 minutes, an advantage they held until Isak converted his second kick with 13 minutes to go.

Newcastle’s introduction of Harvey Barnes midway through the second half ultimately proved crucial. Isak fed the winger for the first time into the box seven minutes from time, and his spectacular long-range winner in the 90th minute gave his side their first victory from a two-goal lead in five years.

Chelsea 4-3 Manchester United, April 4

In a dizzying individual season, Cole Palmer scored two of the last 10 Premier League goals to thwart what had been an admirable Manchester United comeback at Stamford Bridge.

Goals from Conor Gallagher and Palmer put the hosts 2-0 ahead after 19 minutes, with Alejandro Garnacho and Bruno Fernandes leveling United in the 39th minute and Garnacho adding another with 23 minutes of normal time remaining.

Nine minutes and 18 seconds of injury time had elapsed when Palmer scored a record-extending ninth goal with an equalizer that would have left most Chelsea fans happy with the result. His second, after 100 minutes and 39 seconds, was the third overall and the last to win a match.

Everton 2-3 Bournemouth, August 31

After losing their first two games of the season without scoring, Everton quieted the majority at Goodison Park by scoring twice in eight minutes through Michael Keane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin to establish a 2-0 lead over Bournemouth.

After Antoine Semenyo’s 87th-minute response and Lewis Cook’s 92nd-minute header to level Bournemouth, the Cherries had time for Marcus Tavernier and Semenyo to close in on a winner before Luis Sinisterra headed over towards the center of Justin Kluivert in the 97th minute.

The result extended Everton’s wait for a first August win since 2021 to 11 games. There was even more angst in the next game, throwing away a 2-0 lead to lose 3-2 at Aston Villa.

Brighton & Hove Albion 3-2 Tottenham, October 6

In a match between teams known for their risky defensive lines, Tottenham looked well placed to follow up their 3-0 win at Manchester United with another away win after Brennan Johnson and James Maddison gave them a 2-2 lead. 0 at half time.

Brighton had taken the lead before seeing their shortcomings exposed in a 4-2 defeat at Chelsea eight days earlier, but the Seagulls showed their attacking verve by scoring three times in 19 minutes after the break, starting with the goal by Yankuba Minteh in the 48th minute.

Georginio Rutter and Danny Welbeck completed the return to leave Ange Postecoglou ashen-faced as he trudged across the field at full-time. The visiting coach described his players’ performance as “unacceptable” and “probably” the worst of his tenure.

Southampton 2-3 Leicester City, October 19

Southampton had lost their previous two matches against Leicester by an aggregate score of 9-1, with Jamie Vardy improving his record to eight goals and four assists in 19 league matches against them.

First-half goals from Cameron Archer and Joe Aribo appeared to have put the Saints on course for some revenge, even after Facundo Buonanotte’s 64th-minute response.

Ryan Fraser’s sending off 17 minutes from time caused the Foxes to haunt their opponents once again. Vardy converted the resulting penalty to equalize, and Jordan Ayew’s 98th-minute winner was another nail in the coffin for Southampton manager Russell Martin’s spell at the club.

Brentford 4-3 Ipswich Town, October 26

Another game in which both teams came back, with Ipswich – seeking a first win of the season – perhaps scoring too early when Sam Szmodics and George Hirst put them 2-0 up after 31 minutes.

Yoane Wissa scored twice in three minutes to bring Brentford level before half-time, and Bryan Mbeumo’s penalty six minutes after the break looked to have turned things around until Liam Delap equalized four minutes from time regulation time.

Mbeumo was the hero in the 96th minute as Brentford proved they could be powerful after Ivan Toney’s exit, although manager Thomas Frank described himself as “irritated” afterwards. “They were by far the better team for the first 40 minutes,” he said of Town. “There was only one team on the pitch – one of the worst in our Premier League history.”

Tottenham 3-4 Chelsea, December 8

It’s an unfortunate reflection of Tottenham’s defense this season that they are the only team to suffer two defeats on this list and have accumulated them in the space of just over two months.

After a bitter 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth three days earlier, Tottenham capitalized on two errors from Marc Cucurella to take a 2-0 lead after 19 minutes at home to Chelsea thanks to goals from Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski.

Cucurella set up Jadon Sancho for a quick response before two second-half Palmer penalties either side of an Enzo Fernandez goal put Chelsea out of sight. Son Heung-min, who scored in injury time, said afterwards that Spurs were in a “dark tunnel”.

Manchester City 1-2 Manchester United, December 15

In a match arguably more memorable for Ruben Amorim than for anyone else watching, the Portuguese won his first Manchester derby with an Amad Diallo-inspired victory on enemy territory.

Josko Gvardiol’s header had given City a first-half lead, but Bruno Fernandes equalized two minutes from time with a penalty following a foul by Matheus Nunes on Amad, who struck United’s second under a angle closed in the 90th minute.

It was the last match that a defending champion team led and lost in a Premier League match. City also received an unwelcome reminder of their 3-3 home draw against Feyenoord in the Champions League in October, when they led 3-0 with 27 minutes remaining and conceded the equalizer in the 89th minute.


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