Without Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Liverpool may never have reached Istanbul in 2005, where they would go on to win the Champions League final in the most fairy tale fashion imaginable.
Struggling to even get out of the group stage and 1-0 down to Olympiakos at half-time in their final fixture, it was the Frenchman, signed by Gerard Houllier, who scored the first goal that started a dramatic 3-1 comeback victory - best remembered for Steven Gerrard's late pile-driver - that paved the way to Champions League glory.
As Liverpool overcame Bayer Leverkusen, Juventus and Chelsea, in turn, Sinama-Pongolle was unable to make the squad for the final against AC Milan due to knee injury. That didn't stop him from celebrating wildly in Turkey as the Reds came from 3-0 down at halftime to pull the game all square before going on to win it on penalties on one of the most famous nights in the club's illustrious history.
