just after the start of the second half of extra time cardiff made their final substitution, replacing mcnaughton with darcy blake. two minutes later kuyt made a run from deep in the liverpool half, his initial shot was blocked, but the ball rebounded towards him. as the ball came back to him he shot again and the ball went past heaton and into the cardiff goal to give liverpool a 2–1 lead. cardiff were struggling after the goal with a number of their players suffering from cramp. nevertheless, they had a chance in the 111th minute, when a gunnarsson long throw was only half-cleared by liverpool, but they were unable to convert the chance. towards the end of the half cardiff began to exert more pressure on liverpool. turner, who had been moved into the striker position won a corner for cardiff, which was punched away by reina for a throw-in. cardiff won another from the throw, which found kiss, whose shot was cleared off the line of the liverpool goal by kuyt for another corner. the subsequent corner was headed on by gunnarsson to turner, who beat kuyt to the ball and put his shot past reina into the liverpool goal to level the score at 2–2. turner was shown a yellow card for removing his shirt during the celebration of the goal. liverpool won a corner with a minute remaining but they were unable to score and the referee brought extra time to an end with the scores level, resulting in a penalty shoot-out.