This game, one designed to be a showpiece event for World football and its governing body, will be remembered by many for entirely the wrong reasons; as glamour turned into farce and the European Champions walked away without the trophy, but certainly not without credit.
Liverpool had come into the final on the back of a resounding and comfortable victory against Deportivo Saprissa from Costa Rica whilst their opponents had struggled to overcome Asian representatives Al Ittihad in their semi-final. The South Americans seemed to have a fragile defence and their goalkeeper seemed far more at home dispatching penalties than claiming crosses which saw many Liverpool fans sensing that it could be third time lucky in attempts at claiming this re-shaped version of an old title.
These predictions turned out to be nothing more than that as Sao Paulo were added to the names of Flamengo and Independiente as sides to have defeated Liverpool in this tournament.
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