FOLLOWING Liverpool's 14-13 shootout win over Middlesbrough on Tuesday night, we compile six of our favourite penalty competitions in recent memory. Richard Mason takes you through them.
WEST GERMANY V ENGLAND, WORLD CUP 1990
West Germany win 4-3
A shootout that earned Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle a lucrative career in pizza advertising (more on that later) when the pair missed their spot-kicks to give West Germany the glory in Turin.
The first six penalties of the shootout were textbook, before Pearce drove hard and low down the middle.
Bodo Illgner seemed to try to get out of the way, but the penalty cannoned off his ankles. Waddle's effort, after Olaf Thon had netted his, rose higher and higher over the crossbar and, at the time of writing, is believed to be somewhere in orbit.
Peter Shilton was England's goalkeeper that day and was remarkable for not saving any of the German penalties.
While Bruce Grobellaar was famous for his 'crazy legs' routine in 1984's European Cup final for Liverpool, 40-year-old Shilton's knees were knocking by the time Thon took the winning kick, not by design, but because he had been standing up for nearly two and a half hours.
ENGLAND V GERMANY, EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS, 1996
Germany win 6-5
This was England's opportunity for revenge.
In front of their own fans at Wembley, against a unified Germany, during a tournament that did so much to get everyone excited about football again.
Terry Venables' men mostly complied, Alan Shearer and David Platt ramming their spot-kicks home, showing that power was the best way forward.
Maybe Gareth Southgate didn't watch the earlier penalties, as he stroked his in the vague direction of the goal, a shot easily pawed away by Andreas Kopke.
At least this time, Pearce scored his, further banishing the demons that had hounded him for six years.
All Andreas Moller had to do was pick his spot and Germany once again got the better of their old enemies.
SUNDERLAND V CHARLTON, DIVISION ONE PLAY-OFF 1998
Charlton win 7-6
In a game where eight goals had already been scored, the penalty shoot-out had to match the two hours of football that had gone before.
Sunderland, wearing an awful mustard outfit that had gone a dirty brown colour by the time the spot-kicks came about, lost the shootout after Michael Gray missed the decisive penalty in sudden death, with Sasa Ilic pawing away the full-back's meek effort.
It was the only missed penalty of the lot, with Sunderland keeper Lionel Perez getting nowhere near any of the Latics' efforts.
Charlton manager Alan Curbishley, dressed like a father of the bride with his buttonhole wilting in the Wembley sun, couldn't watch for most of the spot kicks - and by the end, the Sunderland fans wished they hadn't either.
LIVERPOOL V AC MILAN, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL 2005
Liverpool win 3-2
This was a shoot-out better remembered for fine goalkeeping as opposed to expert marksmanship.
Jerzy Dudek channelled his inner Grobbelaar to deny Pirlo and Andrey Shevchenko while Milan stopper Dida made the save of the shootout, tipping John Arne Riise's spot-kick around the post.
The difference between this shootout compared to the older ones was the movement of the goalkeepers.
They were now allowed to move on their line but, crucially, not off their line, and Dudek exploited this to great effect, being a constant moving target.
However, the Reds' keeper did stray off his line for several of the spot kicks but hey, who cares - this was a fitting end to one of the greatest games of football in recent memory.
LIVERPOOL V WEST HAM UNITED, FA CUP FINAL 2006
Liverpool win 3-1
Steven Gerrard's 91st minute screamer earned Liverpool extra-time after going behind three times to a hungry West Ham side in the last cup final to be played at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
By the time the shootout came, the Hammers were hammered, with only evergreen Teddy Sheringham having scored his spot-kick.
Bobby Zamora, Paul Konchesky and Anton Ferdinand all saw their efforts saved by Pepe Reina, while Didi Hamann, Gerrard and John Arne Riise were the heroes in red on the day.
LIVERPOOL V MIDDLESBROUGH, CAPITAL ONE CUP 2014
Liverpool win 14-13
Sudden death proved to be a contradiction. There was nothing sudden about Tuesday's penalty shoot-out.
However, death did feel like a likely consequence. Even watching it from afar invoked a horrible tense nervous reaction.
So for some of the players to take their penalties a second time showed some real mental strength. Patrick Bamford particularly, having missed his first kick of the shootout - having sent the game to penalties in the first place by netting from the spot in extra-time - fired in his third effort of the night.
But it wasn't to be.
All counted for nought when Albert Adomah, having scored during the first rotation of penalties, missed his second, pumping it high and wide into the Kop - the 30th and final spot-kick of the shootout.
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