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Karius to wear #1: Liverpool’s last six #1’s

By Tom Bogert

NEWCASTLE, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 21: Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar looks on during a snow shower during a 3-0 win to Newcastle during the FA Premier league match between Newcastle United and Liverpool at St James' Park on November 21, 1993 in Newcastle, England, (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Allsport/Getty Images)
NEWCASTLE, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 21: Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar looks on during a snow shower during a 3-0 win to Newcastle during the FA Premier league match between Newcastle United and Liverpool at St James' Park on November 21, 1993 in Newcastle, England, (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Allsport/Getty Images) /
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Liverpool’s Polish goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek (front) stops a penalty shot from AC Milan’s Ukrainian forward Andriy Shevchenko during their Champions League final soccer match at the Ataturk Olympic stadium. (Photo by liewig christian/Corbis via Getty Images)
Liverpool’s Polish goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek (front) stops a penalty shot from AC Milan’s Ukrainian forward Andriy Shevchenko during their Champions League final soccer match at the Ataturk Olympic stadium. (Photo by liewig christian/Corbis via Getty Images) /

Jerzy Dudek /// 186 appearances /// 1 MAGICAL NIGHT IN ISTANBUL

What an incredible photograph this is. Absolutely beautiful.

Dudek played for Liverpool 186 times and that night in Istanbul in 2005 was all the club could ever ask from him. Once Liverpool clawed back into the match from 3-0 down to make it 3-3, he played like a man possessed.

Even before the penalty shootout, he had the greatest save I’ve ever seen on Andriy Shevchenko– and that’s no hyperbole. We literally watched the peak of the man’s life that night.

Other than that Champions League triumph, Dudek won the League Cup and FA Cup during his time at Liverpool.

That match was his last as Liverpool’s first choice keeper. The subsequent summer, Pepe Reina was brought in and Dudek was moved to the bench before he left for Real Madrid in 2007.

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