10 of the best ever Arsenal comeback wins

Arsenal 4-3 Leicester – August 11, 2017

Arsenal welcomed Leicester City to Emirates Stadium to kick off the 2017/18 Premier League season.

The Gunners had to come from behind twice with the tying and winning goals coming with less than ten minutes left on the clock.

The match started well for the home side as new signing Alexandre Lacazette scored his first goal in North London just two minutes into the match as he met a cross from Mohamed Elneny in the box. It was just Lacazette’s second touch as a Premier League player.

Lacazette became the seventh player to score on his Premier League debut for Arsenal, after Kevin Campbell, Steve Bould, Fredrik Ljungberg, Emmanuel Adebayor, Samir Nasri, and Thomas Vermaelen.

The home side’s lead was short-lived, however, as Leicester’s Shinji Okazaki equalized just three minutes later, with Vardy handing the visitors the lead with half an hour on the clock.

Late in first-half stoppage time, Welbeck scored to end the first half even at 2-2.

Leicester took the lead once again in the 56th minute as Vardy scored his second goal of the match with an assist from Riyad Mahrez.

Proving his status as a tactical genius, Wenger made a double switch in the 67th minute as Giroud and Ramsey came on in place of Elneny and Rob Holding.

The change paid off. Ramsey met a cross from Xhaka in the 83rd minute and deposited it into the back of the net to draw his side level 3-3.

Giroud would complete the home side’s comeback just two minutes later. The Frenchman headed home from a Xhaka cross to give the Gunner’s a hard-fought opening day 4-3 victory.

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