{"id":8683,"date":"2026-06-13T13:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2026-06-13T13:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:18:41","slug":"liverpools-greatest-no-63-john-arne-riise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8683","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Greatest &#8211; No.63: John Arne Riise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He lifted the League Cup in 2003 and two seasons later scored the fastest goal ever in the competition\u2019s final \u2013 another humdinger in an eventual defeat by Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>That 2004-05 campaign did deliver glory in the Champions League, though, and Riise played every game on the road to European Cup No.5. <\/p>\n<p>In the final itself, he had a supporting role in one of football\u2019s greatest comebacks, by delivering the cross <strong><u>Steven Gerrard<\/u><\/strong>  headed in to kick-start the Reds\u2019 recovery from three goals down against AC Milan in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Riise would miss his penalty in the shootout \u2013 without consequence \u2013 but avenged that personal disappointment the following year in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>When that showpiece with West Ham United went to penalties, Riise stepped up to convert his team\u2019s fourth effort, preceding <strong><u>Pepe Reina<\/u><\/strong>\u2019s save from<strong> <\/strong>Anton Ferdinand that clinched the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Battling with <strong><u>Fabius Aurelius<\/u><\/strong>  for the left-back berth in his last two seasons, Riise added a further 92 appearances to his total before joining AS Roma in the summer of 2008.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get exclusive early access to the next players revealed on the Liverpool&#8217;s Greatest list every day on the official LFC app: <\/strong><strong>iOS<\/strong><strong>  | <\/strong><strong>Google Play<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He lifted the League Cup in 2003 and two seasons later scored the fastest goal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}