Hope For Man City, Chelsea & Spurs - Great Champions League Comebacks

It was a reliable mates of days past week for nan English clubs successful nan Champions League.

Six sides from nan Premier League took portion successful last-16 first-leg ties, but nary of them won.

Two of them - Newcastle and Arsenal - secured draws, against Barcelona and Bayer Leverkusen respectively, Liverpool mislaid 1-0 astatine Galatasaray, while nan different 3 - Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester City - each suffered defeats by three-goal margins.

On Tuesday and Wednesday nan 2nd legs return spot pinch Spurs, Chelsea and City each needing thing memorable against Atletico Madrid, Paris St-Germain and Real Madrid respectively.

Portuguese broadside Sporting besides statesman 3 goals down erstwhile they entertain Bodo/Glimt aft losing successful Norway past week.

But location is dream for those sides that are trailing heavily.

Before this season's past 16, location person been 51 occasions of a squad losing nan first limb of a Champions League knockout necktie by 3 aliases much goals. Four of those person progressed to nan adjacent round.

We person taken a look astatine those instances, arsenic good arsenic Tottenham's heroic 2019 comeback from 3-0 down pinch 1 half left.

Tottenham travelled to Ajax for nan 2nd limb of their semi-final trailing 1-0, and things went from bad to worse successful Amsterdam erstwhile Matthijs de Ligt and Hakim Ziyech put Ajax 3-0 up connected aggregate earlier nan break.

Spurs needed to people 3 times without reply to advancement connected distant goals, and were fixed a glimmer of dream 10 minutes into nan 2nd half done Lucas Moura - and it was crippled connected conscionable 4 minutes later.

Moura pounced connected a loose shot successful nan container aft Fernando Llorente's changeable was saved and he coiled location to put nan hosts connected nan ropes.

The stunning turnaround was completed successful nan 95th infinitesimal erstwhile Moura recorded a hat-trick to seal Tottenham's spot successful nan last connected distant goals, leaving Ajax players strewn crossed nan turf successful disbelief.

Just 24 hours earlier Tottenham's heroics successful Amsterdam, Liverpool had overturned their ain three-goal deficit.

The Reds' hopes of forcing their measurement backmost into nan semi-final aft a 3-0 nonaccomplishment to Barcelona astatine nan Nou Camp looked slim, particularly pinch Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino unavailable because of injury.

But Divock Origi sewage nan shot rolling connected 7 minutes, earlier nan necktie really turned successful nan abstraction of 166 seconds aft half-time erstwhile substitute Georginio Wijnaldum scored twice.

A infinitesimal of speedy reasoning saw Liverpool complete nan occupation arsenic Trent Alexander-Arnold spotted Barcelona's defence move disconnected from a corner, whipping nan shot successful debased for Origi to occurrence location and spark chaotic scenes astatine Anfield.

"Roma person risen from their ruins."

That iconic statement from commentator Peter Drury summed up an unthinkable nighttime arsenic Roma clinched a memorable comeback to nonstop Barcelona packing successful nan quarter-finals.

Own goals from Daniele de Rossi and Kostas Manolas helped Barca grounds a 4-1 triumph successful nan first limb astatine nan Nou Camp.

Edin Dzeko's precocious extremity successful Spain gave Roma thing to build from and nan guardant struck early successful nan return limb to further fortify their belief.

De Rossi atoned for his ain extremity pinch a second-half onslaught and, pinch conscionable 8 minutes to go, Manolas headed location a area to extremity Roma's 34-year hold for a spot successful nan semi-finals of Europe's starring competition.

Arguably nan top comeback of all, this 1 is truthful iconic that it has its very ain title successful France and Spain - La Remontada (The Comeback).

PSG were objective astatine home, winning 4-0, but nan Nou Camp sensed thing typical erstwhile Luis Suarez scored aft conscionable 3 minutes successful nan 2nd leg.

Barcelona were 2 goals to nan bully astatine nan break courtesy of a Layvin Kurzawa ain goal, but still trailed by 2 goals connected aggregate.

Lionel Messi scored a punishment soon aft nan restart but Edinson Cavani deed backmost to soundlessness nan location faithful, though it wasn't nan pendulum-swinging infinitesimal PSG hoped for.

Barcelona, now trailing 5-3, needed 3 goals successful less than 30 minutes to execute a miracle. Neymar scored a free-kick successful nan 88th infinitesimal to connection further hope, earlier nan Brazilian stroked location a 91st-minute punishment to level nan necktie astatine 5-5 connected aggregate.

But PSG were still heading done connected distant goals.

Then, pinch 20 seconds of added clip remaining, La Remontada came to fruition erstwhile Sergi Roberto turned location Neymar's chipped pass, pinch Barcelona becoming nan only squad successful history to overturn a four-goal Champions League deficit.

Deportivo La Coruna, presently plying their waste and acquisition successful nan 2nd tier of Spanish football, are nary longer associated pinch nan Champions League - but they carried retired an unforgettable fightback against heavyweight guidance successful 2004.

Milan travelled to Spain pinch a 4-1 lead from nan first leg, but Deportivo were not fresh to rotation over.

Walter Pandiani, who collapsed nan deadlock astatine nan San Siro, sewage nan Spaniards up and moving connected location soil.

Unlike nan first limb erstwhile they sat backmost aft taking nan lead, Deportivo threw be aware to nan upwind and it paid disconnected arsenic they wiped retired Milan's aggregate advantage successful conscionable 43 minutes aft goals from Juan Carlos Valeron and Albert Luque.

That would person been capable for Deportivo to spell done connected distant goals but they continued to property and Fran slotted location a 4th to corroborate Carlo Ancelotti's broadside were heading out.

Watch highlights of each Champions League crippled from 22:00 connected Wednesday connected BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website and app.

There will besides beryllium a Champions League Match of nan Day connected BBC One connected Wednesday, from 22:40 to 00:00.