6 Minutes in Istanbul: How Liverpool won the Champions League in 2005

What if Football

They were never supposed to win the Champions League. They had a new manager in a foreign land, they lost Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard almost followed him. They were seconds away from elimination against Olympiakos, were up against it in Turin and in West London and that’s before we get to Istanbul, where Six Minutes of Magic helped lift Liverpool’s fifth European Cup.

00:00 – Introduction

00:25 – The Houllier Years

06:25 – A Miserable Season

11:10 – The Road to Istanbul

24:20 – Rafa’s Legacy

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