Top 10 thrilling Champions League Matches of All Time

#1: AC MILAN 3-3(PEN 2-3)LIVERPOOL

Liverpool won the most dramatic Champions League Final in 2005.

Round: Final

Aggregate: AC Milan 3-3(PEN 2-3)Liverpool

It had to be Istanbul. Never has a team looked so outclassed in the first half and been so immense in the second as Liverpool did against AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League final.

It was just fifty seconds into the game when the Nerazzurri skipper Paolo Maldini scored the first, from an Andrea Pirlo set-piece. Later, Hernan Crespo scored a brace against the Merseysiders.

The Brazilian sensation Ricardo Kaka was mesmerizing against Liverpool, whose lob over three defenders made space for Andriy Shevchenko to set up the goal for Hernan Crespo. The third one came on an assist from him, with beautiful through ball to Crespo, who chipped it over Jerzy Dudek.

At the start of the second half, Liverpool wasted no time, leveling the 3-0 deficit in an incredible five minutes. It was John Arne Riise's cross and the Gerrard header that started Liverpool's redemption.

Two minutes later, Vladimir Smicer drove a low shot from 20 yards away from goal against Dida. Another blunder in defence from Gennaro Gattuso saw Xabi Alonso stepping up for a penalty to draw level. Though Dida stopped the ball, Alonso hit it back in the roof, thus completing the redemption of Liverpool.

The penalties were up as neither of the sides was able to score in extra-time. Jerzy Dudek put in a heroic performance as he denied Serginho, Pirlo, and Shevchenko as Liverpool scored three goals through Hamann, Cisse, and Smicer. Liverpool's celebrations were understandably manic because after all, they had just completed the most unbelievable European cup win in history.

AC Milan: Dida, Cafu, Maldini, Stam, Nesta, Gattuso (Rui Costa 112), Seedorf (Serginho 86), Pirlo, Kaka, Shevchenko, Crespo (Tomasson 85)

Goalscorers: Maldini 1, Crespo 39, 44 (Penalties: Tommasson, Kaka)

Liverpool: Dudek, Finnan (Hamann 46), Traore, Hyypia, Carragher, Riise, Gerrard, Luis Garcia, Alonso, Kewell (Smicer 23), Baros (Cisse 85)

Goalscorers: Gerrard 54, Smicer 56, Alonso 59 (Penalties: Hamann, Cisse, Smicer)

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