Beşiktaş pulled off a stunning UEFA Champions League comeback to deny Benfica a first win on Turkish soil on Wednesday. The hosts were 3-0 down at half-time but stormed back to earn a Group B draw that keeps both teams’ last-16 hopes intact. So where does that rank against the competition’s finest recoveries? Here are five of the best.
2005: AC Milan 3-3 Liverpool (Liverpool win 3-2 on pens)
The most famous of them all, the original ‘miracle of Istanbul’. Trailing 3-0 at the break, Rafael Benítez’s side stormed back in the second half with three goals in seven minutes to set up a dramatic shoot-out triumph. Andriy Shevchenko, scorer of the winn…