Comeback wins have happened more often than ever in the Premier League since the start of last season, making 2024 a vintage year for Fightbacks fans – and a testing year for Tottenham fans in particular.

With a contribution of 63 games, 16.6% of matches to feature a win later in 2023/24 represents the highest percentage on record for competitions in which it has occurred across an entire Premier League campaign. choose.

By mid-October, the 2024/25 season was at an even higher figure of 17.1%. Several more epics have followed, including spirit-sappers for the following teams, one in the Manchester derby and an apparently inevitable upset for Spurs.

From Molineux to St Mary’s, 101GreatGoals.com takes a look at the 10 best comebacks of the calendar year.

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Watch this Coby Mino stoppage-time winner that gave the Red Devils a thrilling 4-3 win over Wolves 🤩 pic.twitter.com/gP9Qv7NMov

– Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) February 2, 2024

Wolves 3-4 Manchester United, February 1

With Wolves fighting relegation and long before Erik ten Hag’s reign at Manchester United mercifully ended, Kobi Mainu’s 97th-minute winner cruelly denied Gary O’Neill’s side they thought they had won two minutes earlier.

The now-exiled Marcus Rashford 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 made it 3-1 with two goals after 75 minutes – a second goal lead.

Pedro Neto equalized in the fifth minute of extra time, after Max Kilman pulled one back. Amazingly, Maino still had time to turn in the decisive goal, starting a four-game winning run for Ten Hague that would end with a 97th-minute home defeat against Fulham on 24 February.

Bournemouth 4-3 Luton, 13 March

More than 20 years after a top flight team last recovered to win from three behind – Wolves home to Leicester City in 2003 – Bournemouth repeated the trick at Luton, recovering from a 3-0 half-time deficit.

Dominic Solanke started the comeback five minutes after the break, with goals from Ilia Zabarni in the 62nd minute and Antoine Semenio in the 64th and 83rd minutes.

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— AFC Bournemouth 🍒 (@afcbournemouth) March 14, 2024

“Once we score the first one, everyone starts to believe,” Cherries manager Andoni Iraola told Sky Sports. Luton would concede 85 goals on their way to relegation.

Newcastle 4-3 West Ham, 30 March

Responding in style to Alexander Isak’s sixth-minute opener for Newcastle, West Ham equalized through Michail Antonio after 15 minutes and spoiled the half-time mood among the home fans by taking the lead through Muhammad Qudus, whose strike came after 54 minutes and two seconds. The second-latest first-half goal in Premier League history.

Those Toon fans may have wished they hadn’t bounced back in the second half when Jarrod Bowen put West Ham 3-1 up after 48 minutes, an advantage they held until Isack converted his second spot kick with 13 minutes remaining. was

Newcastle’s introduction of Harvey Barnes midway through the second half ultimately proved decisive. Isak set up the winger for the first time inside the box seven minutes from time, and his stunning long-range 90th-minute winner gave his side their first win from two goals down in five years.

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Harvey Barnes makes it 4-3 Newcastle! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/taq6oOePdk

— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) March 30, 2024

Chelsea 4-3 Manchester United, April 4

During a tremendous individual season, Cole Palmer scored two of the latest 10 Premier League goals on record to thwart Manchester United’s admirable comeback at Stamford Bridge.

Conor Gallagher and Palmer scored to put the hosts 2–0 up after 19 minutes, with Alejandro Garnacho and Bruno Fernandes drawing United level in the 39th minute and Garnacho adding another with 23 minutes of regular time to play.

Nine minutes and 18 seconds into added time Palmer scored a record ninth goal with an equalizer that would have pleased most Chelsea fans. His second, after 100 minutes and 39 seconds, was the third-latest overall and the latest to win a game.

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But they couldn’t stop Cole Palmer scoring the 101st minute winner! 🥶 pic.twitter.com/NTCZof0gp3

— Premier League (@premierleague) April 7, 2024

Everton 2-3 Bournemouth, 31 August

After going goalless in both of their opening games of the season, Everton delighted a large crowd at Goodison Park with goals from Michael Keane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin twice in the space of eight minutes to establish a 2–0 lead over Bournemouth.

After Antoine Semenyo’s 87th-minute reply and Lewis Cook’s 92nd-minute header drew Bournemouth level, the Cherries had time to go close for a winner for Marcus Tavernier and Semenyo, before Luis Sinistera headed in Justin Kluivert’s cross in the 97th minute.

The result extended Everton’s wait for a first win since August 2021 to 11 games. There was more misery in their next game, losing 3–2 at Aston Villa, giving up a 2–0 lead.

Brighton & Hove Albion 3-2 Tottenham, 6 October

In a game between teams known for dangerously high defensive lines, Tottenham looked strongly set to follow up their 3-0 win over Manchester United, with Brennan Johnson and James Maddison leading 2-0 at half-time.

Brighton had taken the lead eight days earlier before their shortcomings were badly exposed in a 4-2 defeat at Chelsea, but the Seagulls showed their attacking prowess this time around, scoring three times in 19 minutes after the break, Yankuba Minteh’s 48th minute opener. strike

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Brighton turn it up! Welbeck goes home! 💥 pic.twitter.com/gI1MUWCLzr

– Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) October 6, 2024

Georginio Rutter and Danny Welbeck completed the comeback and Ange Postecoglou tackled Ashen as he strode onto the pitch at full-time. The visiting manager described his players’ performances as “unacceptable” and “probably” the worst of his tenure.

Southampton 2-3 Leicester City, 19 October

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

First-half goals from Cameron Archer and Joe Eribo looked to have put the Saints well-placed for revenge even after Facundo Buonnotte’s 64th-minute reply.

Ryan Fraser’s dismissal 17 minutes from time had the Foxes tormenting their opponents 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.

“Sometimes you don’t need a set-piece coach!”@Carra23 Jordan Ayew’s 98th minute winner for Leicester against Southampton on Saturday ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/6WWr4LY89i

– Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) October 21, 2024

Brentford 4-3 Ipswich Town, 26 October

Another game in which both teams bounced back with Ipswich – getting their first win of the season – scored perhaps too early when Sam Szmodics and George Hurst put them 2-0 up after 31 minutes.

Yoan Wisa netted twice in three minutes to bring Brentford level before half-time, and Brian Mbumo’s penalty six minutes after the break turned the game around before Liam Delap equalized four minutes from the end of regular time.

🇨🇲🪄 Brian Mbuyomo 90+6′ winner for Brentford against Ipswich! 😎 pic.twitter.com/eaNMxfTLBc

— Eurofoot (@eurofootcom) October 26, 2024

Brentford proved they could be a force after Ivan Toni’s exit, although manager Thomas Frank later described himself as “exasperated” with Mbeumao being the hero in the 96th minute. “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 teams we’ve ever had in the Premier League.”

Tottenham 3-4 Chelsea, 8 December

It is an unfortunate reflection of Tottenham’s defense this season that they are the only team on this list to sustain two defeats and have accumulated both in the space of more than two months.

After losing 1-0 at Bournemouth three days earlier, Tottenham capitalized on two Marc Cucurella mistakes to go 2-0 up at Chelsea through goals from Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski after 19 minutes.

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Cole Palmer with a Panenka penalty to put the game beyond all doubt! pic.twitter.com/JE96MpFUrr

– Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 8, 2024

Cucurella set up Jadon Sancho for a quick reply before two second-half Palmer penalties either side of Enzo Fernandez’s goal. Son Heung-min, who scored in extra time, said afterwards that Spurs were in a “dark tunnel”.

Manchester City 1-2 Manchester United, 15 December

In a game arguably more memorable for Ruben Amorim than any other watching, the Portuguese won his first Manchester derby with victory in enemy territory inspired by Amad Diallo.

Josco Guardiola’s header gave out-of-form City a first-half lead, but Bruno Fernandes leveled with a penalty two minutes from time after Matthews Nunes was fouled on Amad, who scored United’s second from a tight angle in the 90th minute.

Amad Diallo puts a man United ahead in the 90th minute! 🌟 pic.twitter.com/Q3I684gEDz

– Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 15, 2024

It was the latest incident in the game that a team who are reigning champions have led in a Premier League game and lost. City also received an unwelcome reminder of a 3-3 draw at home to Feyenoord in the Champions League in October, when they led 3-0 with 27 minutes remaining and equalized in the 89th minute.