Liverpool's 10 greatest comebacks of all time on seven-year anniversary of 4-0 Barcelona Champions League semi-final recovery

Liverpool person struggled passim 2025-26 nether Arne Slot, and to marque matters worse, the Premier League champions' indomitable tone has been called into question nether the erstwhile Feyenoord boss.

The Reds' quality to spell against the likelihood has often shone brightest successful hard moments, but that legendary nighttime against Barcelona that saw Mohamed Salah famously donning a 'never springiness up' t-shirt seems each time of its 7 years successful the past astatine the moment.

Back connected May 7, 2019, Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool were 3-0 down against Lionel Messi's Barcelona going into the 2nd limb of their Champions League semi-final astatine Anfield.

Adding to the challenge, Salah and Roberto Firmino - 2 of Klopp's iconic beforehand 3 - were sidelined, but Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum were capable to propulsion disconnected a insignificant occurrence that volition unrecorded agelong successful the representation of each Reds fan.

Here, Sports Mole recalls that celebrated nighttime and counts down the 10 top comebacks successful Liverpool history, marking the seventh day of their betterment against Barcelona.

10. Manchester City 2-3 Liverpool (Premier League | October 5, 2008)

This fixture was by nary means arsenic decisive and important arsenic it would go aboriginal successful the Premier League epoch erstwhile Liverpool visited Manchester City successful October 2008, conscionable a mates of months aft the hosts had been bought by the Abu Dhabi United Group that has since turned them into a footballing superpower.

However, it was inactive an important effect successful a play which saw Liverpool travel adjacent to winning the Premier League title. Rafael Benitez's broadside had taken 14 points from the 18 connected connection during an unbeaten commencement to the season, but looked acceptable for their archetypal decision of the run erstwhile they fell 2 goals down courtesy of strikes from Stephen Ireland and Javier Garrido.

Cue Fernando Torres astatine the highest of his powers to hitch retired that pb with a second-half brace earlier Dirk Kuyt notched a 90th-minute victor to unafraid each 3 points.

Liverpool went connected to suffer conscionable 1 of their opening 27 league games and lone doubly each season, yet they inactive missed retired connected the rubric to Manchester United.

9. Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle United (Premier League | April 3, 1996)

The top Premier League lucifer of each time? Even 29 years aft it took place, you volition inactive find this iconic contention adjacent the apical of immoderate database detailing the competition's astir memorable games.

As a game, fewer tin lucifer it, but arsenic a comeback determination are better, hence wherefore it lone comes ninth successful the list. Liverpool really took the pb successful this match, with Robbie Fowler netting aft lone 2 minutes, but by the quarter-hour people they trailed to goals from Les Ferdinand and David Ginola.

Fowler past doubled his idiosyncratic tally earlier Faustino Asprilla restored Newcastle's pb conscionable 3 minutes later, but 3 minutes aft that Stan Collymore levelled things up erstwhile again.

Collymore would person the past laughter too, firing location a melodramatic victor successful stoppage clip to nonstop Newcastle brag - and Liverpool fable - Kevin Keegan slumping implicit an advertizing hoarding arsenic Anfield went wild.

The lone downside for Liverpool was that it edged the Premier League rubric further successful the absorption of Manchester United arsenic the Magpies blew a 12-point pb that season.

8. Liverpool 3-1 Saint-Etienne (European Cup | March 16, 1977)

A lucifer of immense value successful Liverpool's past - Bob Paisley's broadside looked destined for elimination successful the 3rd circular of the European Cup erstwhile Saint-Etienne scored a important distant extremity successful the 2nd limb astatine Anfield, cancelling retired Kevin Keegan's freak aboriginal opener connected the nighttime and making it 2-1 connected aggregate.

The hosts needed 2 goals to advancement against a Saint-Etienne broadside that had lone conceded erstwhile successful their erstwhile 9 European outings and was considered 1 of the champion teams connected the continent astatine that stage.

Ray Kennedy got them connected their mode with a 59th-minute extremity earlier super-sub David Fairclough sealed Liverpool's advancement with lone six minutes of mean clip remaining.

The sound successful the stadium that nighttime has gone down successful past and arguably contributed much than immoderate different crippled to the legendary estimation of European nights astatine Anfield.

The Reds went connected to assistance the archetypal of their six European Cups that twelvemonth and person not looked backmost since.

7. Arsenal 1-2 Liverpool (FA Cup last | May 12, 2001)

The archetypal ever FA Cup last held extracurricular England proved to beryllium 1 of its astir memorable ones excessively arsenic Michael Owen astir single-handedly fired Liverpool to glory astatine the Millenium Stadium.

Liverpool were 2nd champion for overmuch of the contention against an Arsenal broadside that would spell connected to triumph the treble the pursuing season, and it looked arsenic though the Gunners would assistance the trophy erstwhile Freddie Ljungberg gave them the pb aft 74 minutes.

Cue the lad wonderment Owen to heighten his burgeoning estimation with 2 goals successful the last 7 minutes, the archetypal an instinctive poacher's effort and the 2nd showcasing his gait and deadly finishing ability.

The trophy was portion of a treble for Liverpool that play arsenic they besides lifted the League Cup and the UEFA Cup, portion Owen picked up the prestigious Ballon d'Or acknowledgment mostly to his heroics successful Cardiff.

6. Liverpool 3-2 Club Brugge (UEFA Cup last | April 28, 1976)

Before Saint-Etienne, determination was Club Brugge arsenic the standard-bearer for European nights astatine Anfield.

The UEFA Cup last was played implicit 2 legs successful 1976, and Liverpool got disconnected to a nightmare commencement successful the archetypal astatine Anfield arsenic Club Brugge scored doubly successful the opening 15 minutes - a large capable upland to ascent without the added disadvantage of them being distant goals.

However, successful a template of what was to travel successful aboriginal European comebacks Liverpool came roaring backmost successful the 2nd half, scoring 3 times successful the abstraction of six minutes to crook the necktie around.

Ray Kennedy scored a stunner to statesman the betterment and created a 2nd for Jimmy Case, earlier Keegan netted from the punishment spot to implicit the turnaround. Keegan scored again successful a 1-1 second-leg gully successful Belgium to guarantee that the trophy came backmost to Merseyside.

5. Liverpool 3-1 Olympiacos (Champions League | December 8, 2004)

We are already good into immoderate of the top moments successful Liverpool's history, and this volition not beryllium the past you spot of a definite Steven Gerrard connected this list.

Liverpool went into their last radical crippled of the 2004-05 Champions League needing to bushed visiting Olympiacos by 2 wide goals to scope the knockout rounds, and that task was made adjacent harder by Rivaldo's 26th-minute escaped kick.

Some little acquainted saviours played a important relation for Liverpool connected that night, with Florent Sinama-Pongolle pulling 1 backmost soon aft fractional clip and Neil Mellor putting Liverpool up successful the lucifer with 9 minutes of mean clip remaining.

Both goals were simply appetisers for the main course, though, with Mellor teeing up Gerrard to thump a half-volley for the ages past the keeper.

It was a extremity Anfield volition ne'er forget, and 1 which became of adjacent greater value considering what happened successful Istanbul successful the last of that year's competition.

4. Liverpool 3-3 West Ham - Liverpool triumph 3-1 connected penalties (FA Cup last | May 13, 2006)

Of each Gerrard's Liverpool heroics - and determination are a batch - this is possibly the lucifer successful which helium had the biggest idiosyncratic impact.

The 2006 FA Cup was not the astir prestigious trophy helium won with the Reds, but it is arguably the 1 lucifer which champion sums up his Liverpool career, up of adjacent the 2005 Champions League final.

Five years connected from Owen's victor against Arsenal, Liverpool returned to the Millenium Stadium again and played retired different classical FA Cup final, this clip against underdogs West Ham.

The Hammers took a two-goal pb done a Jamie Carragher ain extremity and Dean Ashton strike, but Gerrard acceptable up Djibril Cisse to halve the shortage earlier the Liverpool skipper got his ain sanction connected the scoresheet to level things up 10 minutes into the 2nd half.

A freak Paul Konchesky extremity saw West Ham reconstruct their vantage 10 minutes aboriginal and that looked arsenic though it would beryllium capable to manus the nine their archetypal FA Cup rubric since 1980.

That was until the shot bounced retired to a cramp-ridden Gerrard, who lashed an unthinkable first-time 35-yard onslaught into the bottommost country to unit other clip and penalties, which Liverpool won courtesy of 3 saves from Pepe Reina.

The lucifer has present gone down successful folklore arsenic 'the Gerrard final' and ranks among the champion successful the competition's agelong and illustrious history.

3. Liverpool 4-3 Borussia Dortmund (Europa League | April 14, 2016)

Quite perchance the top lucifer successful Europa League history, and 1 which would beryllium bully capable to apical the database for astir clubs successful the world.

A 1-1 gully successful the archetypal limb successful Germany acceptable the country arsenic Jurgen Klopp welcomed his erstwhile nine Borussia Dortmund to Anfield, though it soon looked similar being an unhappy reunion erstwhile distant goals from Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang wrong the archetypal 10 minutes abruptly near the Reds needing 3 goals.

Divock Origi - a sanction you volition perceive again soon successful this countdown - pulled the archetypal of those backmost soon aft fractional time, but Marco Reus past restored Dortmund's two-goal pb and appeared to seal their spot successful the semi-finals of the competition.

Liverpool needed 3 goals successful the last fractional an hour, and not for the archetypal clip the Kop seemed to suck the shot into the backmost of the net. Philippe Coutinho got the archetypal successful the 66th minute, Mamadou Sakho pulled different 1 backmost 11 minutes aboriginal and past Dejan Lovren completed the occupation successful the 91st minute.

Liverpool went connected to scope the last successful Klopp's archetypal play astatine the helm, but decision to Sevilla ensured that helium had to hold different 3 years for his archetypal trophy arsenic manager.

2. Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona (Champions League | May 7, 2019)

There person been countless memorable moments astatine Anfield which person contributed to the stadium's mystique, but this lucifer tops the lot.

Liverpool had been good beaten 3-0 by Barcelona astatine Camp Nou six days earlier, with Lionel Messi weaving his magic with a brace including a stunning long-range escaped footwear which brought up his 600-goal milestone for the Spanish giants.

Only a insignificant occurrence would spot the Reds suffice for a 2nd successive Champions League final, and their task was made adjacent much hard by the information that prima forwards Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino were absent.

If anyone could propulsion it off, though, it was apt to beryllium Liverpool and Origi got Klopp's broadside disconnected to a cleanable commencement with a extremity wrong 7 minutes, though they inactive needed 3 much goals going into the 2nd half.

Klopp's determination to bring connected Georginio Wijnaldum successful spot of Andrew Robertson astatine the interval proved to beryllium a masterstroke; the Dutchman scored 9 minutes aft his instauration and past again 2 minutes aboriginal to level things up connected aggregate and permission Liverpool needing lone 1 much extremity to propulsion disconnected 1 of the top European comebacks ever.

Cue the iconic infinitesimal of the contention arsenic a 20-year-old Trent Alexander-Arnold took a speedy country which Origi swept location successful the 79th minute, sending Anfield into raptures and crowning the astir memorable nighttime successful the celebrated stadium's history.

Football's top ever subordinate Lionel Messi was near shell-shocked, portion adjacent Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho, who knew each astir Anfield, could not rather judge what had conscionable taken place.

1. Liverpool 3-3 AC Milan (Champions League last | May 25, 2005)

From the top Champions League semi-final comeback of each clip to the top Champions League last of each time, fig 1 connected this database simply could not person gone to immoderate different match.

The 'Miracle of Istanbul' is arguably the champion and astir melodramatic Champions League last ever and tops the database erstwhile it comes to the galore unthinkable nights Liverpool person enjoyed passim their full past excessively arsenic they brought location their 5th European crown successful the astir singular fashion.

Rafael Benitez's side, who lone finished 5th successful the Premier League that season, had already upset the likelihood to marque it to the Ataturk Stadium, beating dense favourites Juventus and Chelsea successful the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively.

A showdown with a star-studded AC Milan broadside boasting a plethora of football's all-time greats was the reward arsenic the likes of Cafu, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Nesta, Jaap Stam, Kaka, Clarence Seedorf, Andrea Pirlo, Hernan Crespo and Andriy Shevchenko took connected a Liverpool squad with obscurity adjacent that quality.

The spread threatened to beryllium exposed successful brutally humiliating manner passim the archetypal half; Maldini scored wrong the precise archetypal infinitesimal earlier Liverpool's defence was sliced unfastened arsenic Crespo added 2 more, having besides seen an effort cleared disconnected the line.

It looked arsenic though Liverpool's champion stake would beryllium harm regulation astatine the halfway stage, but the fans were inactive successful afloat dependable and their hair-raising rendition of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' successful the look of imaginable embarrassment filtered into the dressing country and inspired the players.

Gerrard was the embodiment of that and pulled the archetypal backmost successful the 54th minute, Vladimir Smicer made it 3-2 2 minutes aboriginal and past 3 minutes aft that Xabi Alonso completed the comeback by scoring the rebound from his saved penalty.

The five-minute blitz shook AC Milan to their core, but determination was inactive enactment to bash for Liverpool and without immoderate heroic defending from Jamie Carragher and a logic-defying double-save from Jerzy Dudek to thwart Shevchenko from point-blank range, the Reds would person ne'er made it to penalties.

Dudek provided much memories successful the shootout itself, channeling his interior Bruce Grobbelaar with the 'spaghetti legs' from the 1984 European Cup last arsenic Milan missed 3 of their 5 penalties - Shevchenko again the antheral denied by Dudek for the decisive spot kick.