The 10 Greatest Comebacks in European Football History

While compiling this list, I found that there were many great games that had fantastic comebacks, but I just couldn't find a space on this slideshow to put them.

Here is a list of the Best of the Rest:

Werder Bremen v Anderlecht - 1994 Champions League Group Stage
Bayern Munich v Inter Milan - 1988 UEFA Cup third round
Real Madrid v Borussia Mönchengladbach - 1985 UEFA Cup third round second leg
Barcelona v Atletico Madrid - 1997 Copa del Rey Quarterfinals second leg
Blackpool v Bolton - 1953 FA Cup Final
Antwerp v Levski Sofia - 1989 UEFA Cup Second Round first leg
Marseille v Montpellier - 1998
Liverpool v Olympiakos - 2004 Champions League Group Stage
Manchester United v Tottenham - 2001
Deportivo La Coruna v Paris Saint-Germain - 2001 Champions League Group Stage.

After winning 4-1 at the San Siro during the first leg, Milan went to the Estadio Riazor in Spain looking to get into the semifinals of the Champions League over Deportivo. However, Deportivo did not give into the Italian giants and got an early goal in the fifth minute by Walter Pandiani to get them back into the match.

After controlling the game with the early goal, Deportivo was able to get within one goal in the 35th minute off a header by Juan Carlos Valeron. They then took the lead in the match up in the 43rd minute on away goals when Albert Luque scored.

After taking a 3-0 lead into halftime, Deportivo was able to completely shut down the Milan attack and also got a goal in 75th minute by substitute Gonzalez Fran to take a 4-0 lead. This final goal ended up being the game winner.

This win knocked out Milan, who won the Champions League the season before, and Deportivo just barely missed out going to the Champions League final by losing to the eventual winners in Porto.

In the 1984 UEFA Cup, QPR faced off against Partizan with the first leg being on the artificial turf of Loftus Road.

In that first leg, QPR dominated and went on to win by a 6-2 score and appeared that they would make it onto the next round of the UEFA Cup really easily.

However, the Yugoslav side was prepared. It became only the second ever team in UEFA history to come from behind by four goals to advance in any competition, as Mance, Kalicanin, Jesic and Zivkovic were on target for Partizan at Partizan Stadium and Partizan advanced onto the third round against Videoton.

One of the greatest matches in the history of the German Bundesliga, Bayern Munich found themselves behind 3-0 before the end of the first half, and 4-0 just minutes into the second half.

However, Bayern never gave up, and their phenomenal duo of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Gerd Muller were able to give Bayern Munich a 5-4 lead with 20 minutes remaining.

Bochum came back and were able to tie the game at five with about ten minutes remaining. However, Bayern were not to be denied and they snatched a late winner through Uli Hoeness as time ran out, giving themselves a thrilling 6-5 win.

After a 3-0 win in the first leg in the UEFA Cup at the Sarria Stadium, it appeared that Espanyol were a lock to win the UEFA Cup. However in the second leg at the BayArena, there was no score nearly an hour into the match and it appeared that Espanyol had won the UEFA Cup.

However in the 57th minute, that all changed when Tita scored and then Falko Götz and Cha Bum-Kun were able to score for Bayer. The game was now tied on aggregate and went onto penalties.

In the penalty shootout, Espanyol took a 2-0 on spot kicks, but Bayer keeper Rüdiger Vollborn stopped the next three penalties. Bayer scored on three consecutive attempts, giving Bayer Levekusen an improbable UEFA Cup title.

In the 1984 European Winners Cup, Metz was paired with Spanish giant FC Barcelona. After a 4-2 loss at home during the first leg, Metz now had travel to the Camp Nou for the second leg, which many expected Barcelona to win easily.

Early on, it appeared so as Lobo Carrasco scored an early goal to put Barcelona up 5-2 on aggregate. However, the French started to come back, as they were able to get a hat trick from Zvonko Kurbos and were able to beat Barcelona by a 4-1 score, and eliminated Barcelona from the tournament on an aggregate score of 6-5.

In the 1999 Champions League semifinal, Manchester United faced off against Juventus in a battle of two of the biggest clubs in European football.

In the first leg, Juventus got an away goal and were looking to get to their fourth consecutive Champions League final. They were able to bolster that early at the Stadio Delle Alpi in the second leg, as Filippo Inzaghi scored twice within 11 minutes to give the Zebra's a 3-1 lead on aggregate.

But Man United captain Roy Keane was able to change all of this with a goal off a corner kick. His hard work and determination were key for United, as they were able to get goals from Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole, which gave United a 3-2 lead, which they went on to win by, and were onto their second ever Champions League final.

In the 2005 Champions League final, Liverpool faced off against AC Milan in a battle of two of the biggest football clubs in the world.

In the first minute of the match, Milan captain Paolo Maldini scored off a free kick by Andrea Pirlo and Milan were able to get two more goals by Hernán Crespo to give the Italian giants a 3-0 lead going into halftime, which caused many people that the game was over.

However, Liverpool showed us that night that you could never count them out of anything, as Steven Gerrard, Vladimír Šmicer and Xabi Alonso all scored goals for the Reds within six minutes, rattling the Italian giants and tying the match at three.

After the end of normal time, the game was still tied at three with extra-time now required to find a winner and after no one scored their, penalties would resolve who would win. During the penalties, Jerzy Dudek was able to stop two shots with another one completely missing the net and Liverpool were able to win 3-2 on penalties to win their fifth Champions League title in the Miracle of Istanbul.

In the 1999 UEFA Champions League final, Manchester United faced Bayern Munich in a battle between two European giants.

Early on, Bayern took the lead off a free kick by Mario Basler and dominated the game, but couldn't find a way to beat Man United keeper Peter Schmeichel or any of the woodwork and the game remained tied going into stoppage time.

One minute into stoppage time, United won a corner and Schmeichel came up in what appeared to be United's final chance. But David Beckham's corner resulted in a partial clearance, which led to Ryan Giggs taking a shot that was going wide. But Teddy Sheringham redirected it into the net, tying the game at one.

But United weren't finished, as Ole Gunnar Solskjær won a corner, which was once again taken by Beckham and landed on the foot of Solskær, who kicked the ball into the net, giving Manchester United an improbable 2-1 victory and completing the only English treble to date.

After the game was completed, UEFA president Lennart Johansson stated this memorable quote: "I saw out onto the pitch and I was confused. I thought, it cannot be, the winners are crying and the losers are dancing."

In the 1986 European Cup Quarterfinals, Dynamo Dresden was paired with Bayer Uerdingen in a match up that many expected Dynamo to win.

They proved this in the first leg when they beat Bayer by a 2-0 score. And they were crushing Bayer by a 3-1 scoreline during the second leg but everything was about to change.

It started in the 57th minute, as Wolfgang Funkel converted a controversial penalty, which killed Dynamo's composure. Then, Bayer got two more goals within the next six minutes to tie the game at three.

After a deflected goal and another goal, Bayer and Dynamo were tied at five on aggregate, but Dynamo were still ahead based on away goals. However, they were completely out of sync and allowed two more goals before the end of the game, which ended in a 7-3 win for Bayer Uerdingen and a 7-5 win on aggregate in one of the biggest comebacks in European football history.

On December 21, 1957, Charlton Athletic hosted Huddersfield United at the Valley in a Division Two matchup. Early on, Charlton's Derek Ufton dislocated his shoulder in the 17th minute on the Valley's cold pitch, causing him to be taken off but Charlton had no substitutes, causing the Addicks to be down to ten men for the rest of the match.

Huddersfield was able to take advantage of this by scoring two goals before the half. After a goal by Johnny Summers at the beginning of the second half, which cut the deficit in half, Charlton appeared to have a chance at a comeback.

But Huddersfield continued to pile on goals, as it scored three more times and held a 5-1 lead with 28 minutes to go. But both Johnny Ryan and Summers scored within two minutes for Charlton. And Summers then scored two more goals within the next five minutes, tying the game at five with 15 minutes to go.

With nine minutes to go, Summers registered his fifth of the afternoon, giving Charlton a 6-5 lead. However, Huddersfield somehow got a goal out of Stan Howard off a deflected shot with four minutes to go, tying the game at six.

But Charlton Athletic never gave up and in the 89th minute, Ryan was able to convert a Summers cross to give Charlton Athletic an improbable 7-6 victory in the biggest comeback in European football history.

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