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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Tom Cavilla

Liverpool Champions League winner admits defeat in 'impossible' 17-year pursuit of stolen medal

For one Liverpool player in particular, the events that followed the club's Champions League success in 2005 remains a bitter pill to swallow.

Striker Florent Sinama-Pongolle missed out on featuring in the showpiece fixture in Istanbul against AC Milan having suffered an ACL injury in the January of that year which would rule him out for the remainder of the 2004/05 season.

The 37-year-old scored a crucial goal on the Reds' way to reaching the final of the competition, helping spark a second-half comeback against Olympiacos to progress to the knockout stages. Liverpool were trailing their Greek opponents at the break and knew they had to win this contest by at least two clear goals.

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