Liverpool's players and fans across the world are celebrating winning the FA Cup after Jurgen Klopp's incredible side beat Chelsea on penalties at Wembley again.
Just like February's Carabao Cup final between the sides, spot-kicks were needed after the showpiece ended 0-0 after extra-time.
And just like in February's Carabao Cup final, it was the ice-cool Reds who emerged triumphant to lift the FA Cup for the eighth time in the club's history.
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James Milner, Thiago Alcantara, Roberto Firmino, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Diogo Jota all scored their penalties and, while Sadio Mane missed his, Alisson Becker's save from Mason Mount allowed Kostas Tsimikas to stroke home the winner and send Anfield South into rapture.
And here's what the national media, along with our own Paul Gorst, made of it all.
Jonathan Northcroft, via The Times
“It had to finish some time, somehow and finish it did: with red, sulphurous, smoke bombs on the pitch, with Adrian chairing Kostas Tsimikas towards the delirious Liverpool end and with Jürgen Klopp doing the goofiest dad dancing on the green grass of Wembley.
“It finished with another trophy to Klopp and his men and their impossible dream of the Quadruple still possible, just about. It finished with Mason Mount, hands on hips, vacant expression, standing in a world of his own, a world temporarily beyond consolation.
“Liverpool took a knife-edge and historic FA Cup final. It was 150 years since the first final and for the first time ever the showpiece ended 0-0 even after extra-time had been played. And so it went to a penalty shoot-out, just as the Carabao Cup final did when the same sides met at Wembley in February. And the same outcome: Chelsea heartbroken, and Liverpool toasting a goalkeeper and unlikely hero.
“In the Carabao Cup final those were one and the same person: Caoimhin Kelleher. Here the garlands were split. Tsimikas calmly sent Édouard Mendy the wrong way to convert the winning spot kick after César Azpilicueta and Sadio Mané missed and the shoot out went to sudden death. But perhaps the bigger protagonist was Alisson, Liverpool’s magnificent Brazilian No 1, who had plunged and kept his left wrist ramrod strong to save a low effort from Mount.”
Oliver Holt, via the Mail Online
“The last of the spring sunshine was bathing Wembley’s top tier in light when Kostas Tsimikas stepped up to take the 14th penalty of the shoot-out at the end of the FA Cup Final. Tsimikas stepped up and sent Edouard Mendy the wrong way and wheeled away in delight. Liverpool’s impossible dream, the dream of the unprecedented Quadruple, had survived.
“They have won two trophies this season now, the Carabao Cup Final and the FA Cup final, both against Chelsea, both on penalties. They were clinging on to the dream for dear life by the end, battered and bruised, depleted and exhausted, rocked by losing both Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk to injuries during a sapping, relentless contest. But they hung on.
“And so a double is theirs already after this game that had ended 0-0 after 120 minutes, but the two most important trophies remain. Liverpool have only an outside chance of overhauling Manchester City at the top of the Premier League and quite what sort of team they will be able to field against Southampton on Tuesday night remains to be seen.
“And then there is the small matter of a Champions League final against Real Madrid in Paris a fortnight from now. Madrid will have been encouraged to see Liverpool’s players suffering in the heat here but these are Jurgen Klopp’s ‘mentality monsters’ and so far, they have point-blank refused to be vanquished. Who knows what they may yet conjure.”
Sam Wallace, via The Telegraph
“With the sun low in the sky and Wembley choked with the red smoke of the winning team, Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool side’s dream of a quadruple of trophies was still alive - through 120 minutes and 14 penalties his side claimed the FA Cup, their second trophy of a remarkable season.
“They had the best of the game itself until both sides ran exhausted into the second half of extra-time, and the penalties that would deliver the drama of triumph and despair. It eventually finished at around 7.30pm when the substitute Kostas Tsimikas completed the job for Liverpool at the second time of asking. They might have won it before then when Sadio Mane had the chance to score the winning penalty with the last of the 10, as he has twice done in the last year for Senegal in crucial games, but had his shot stopped brilliantly by Edouard Mendy. That save cancelled the earlier miss for Cesar Azpilicueta but there was one more failed penalty to come - Mason Mount stopped by a remarkable save from Alisson. The Englishman has now played six Wembley finals in his short career and is yet to leave with the trophy after any of them.
“For Klopp, the consequences of the final itself may reverberate for long with both Mohamed Salah in the first half and then later Virgil Van Dijk – the two big men of a great side – both withdrawn with injury. Fabinho, the Brazilian midfielder, was already out the final after that injury four days’ earlier at Villa Park and now in this epic season for Liverpool there are more problems. The celebrations at the end, for the club’s FA Cup since 2006 were long and loud but they ended the game out on their feet.
“They still have the last two games of the Premier League pursuit of Manchester City before the Champions League final in Paris on May 28.”
Paul Gorst, via the Liverpool Echo
“This Liverpool team will have stories told about it one day. And when those tales are spoken about, loudly and proudly in the years to come, the month of May 2022 might just feature as prominently as any other.
“At its midway point, it's shaping up to be some of the greatest few weeks ever seen, even at a club as decorated and as revered as the one from Anfield.
“For the third time since late February, Wembley shook to the Liverpool sound. One kiss is all it takes and under all of the lights they're just so glad that Jurgen is a Red. What an incredible ride this team has taken their supporters on this season. And, just a thought, the best could be yet to come in Paris on May 28 as a seventh European Cup is chased.
“Since reaching the Carabao Cup final in January, Jurgen Klopp and his players have had an uncomfortable millstone hanging around their necks. They might not have felt it themselves as they have blitzed their way to the brink of a treble while still remaining in contention for the Premier League title until the final days, but these months have been critical.”
