History repeated itself for Liverpool here when they amazingly won the Champions League in a penalty shoot-out after staging a stunning comeback in normal time from three down.
Their fifth Euro crown came when marksman Andriy Shevchenko missed his crucial spot-kick to give Liverpool victory and send the Anfield fans wild with delight.
The last time Liverpool won this trophy was back in 1984, and that too against Roma was after penalties.
Serginho missed Milan's first spot-kick - Dudek's dancing on his line clearly put him off - allowing Hamann to fire in Liverpool's first effort. Then Dudek saved Pirlo's next effort, allowing Cisse to ram home the next one to give Liverpool a two-goal lead.
Tomasson kept his nerve to score from the next kick, and Dida saved Riise's next effort to crank up the tension, with Kaka levelling the scores with the next Milan effort.
Smicer was next up to send Dida the wrong way, and then amazingly Shevchenko missed and Liverpool had won the trophy.
Earlier Milan had stormed into a three-goal first-half lead through Paolo Maldini and a Hernan Crespo double, only to be stunned by an amazing Liverpool fight back with three goals in six minutes at the beginning of the second period through Steven Gerrard, Vladimir Smicer and Xabi Alonso.
