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Liverpool's heroes of Istanbul: Where are they now?

With Liverpool preparing to face Real Madrid in Saturday's Champions League final, we've taken the opportunity to look back at the club's last European Cup triumph in 2005 and the heroes who claimed it.

No Reds fan will ever forget the Miracle of Istanbul, when Rafa Benitez's side fought back from three goals down against AC Milan to win a dramatic penalty shootout.

But what about the players who performed so magnificently that night? Where are they now?

Scroll down to find out...

Starting XI

Jerzy Dudek

Dudek left Liverpool to join Real Madrid in 2007, but the Polish goalkeeper will be forever remembered for that double save that denied Andriy Shevchenko in the closing stages and his subsequent heroics in the penalty shootout.