Liverpool 3-3 West Ham (3-1 on pens): The atmosphere builds in the Millennium Stadium ahead of the 125th FA Cup final
Liverpool's Peter Crouch makes an audacious attempt on goal after six minutes with an overhead kick from outside the area
Jamie Carragher runs onto a cross from West Ham's Lionel Scaloni to score an own goal and give the Hammers the lead
Dean Ashton pokes the ball home after Jose Reina spills Matthew Etherington's shot to make it 2-0 on 28 minutes
Liverpool are shaken but Djibril Cisse fires home Gerrard's cross four minutes later to get the Reds back in the game
Gerrard gets Liverpool back on equal terms with a top-quality strike as this FA Cup final shapes up to be one of the greats
The crowd go wild as Paul Konchesky's attempted cross from 25 yards loops over the hapless Reina to make it 3-2
But it's not over yet; Gerrard volleys a magical strike from 35 yards on 90 minutes to send the game into extra time
Rafael Benitez and Alan Pardew urge their players through the pain barrier as a nervy period of extra time plays out
The match goes to penalties; Bobby Zamora, Paul Konchesky and Anton Ferdinand fail to score and West Ham are defeated
Jose Reina rues his earlier mistakes no longer as his spot-kick heroics seal Liverpool's seventh FA Cup win
The victorious players - including penalty-scorers Dietmar Hamann, Gerrard and John Arne Riise - surge towards Reina
Inspirational captain Steven Gerrard hoists the FA Cup aloft to the delight of his team-mates and the ecstatic fans
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