Serious?
Think about how ambitious and single minded you have to be to become a footballer, particularly a non technical one like Gerrard.
His only chance to win something (his only game at Wembley?) and he'll give it up to let Liverpool win what is for them a minor trophy (even if it was their first for a while).
And in all the emotion, he'll make the decision to deliberately miss; but not just that. To miss by a tiny margin just so that it 'looks' as if he's tried to score.
Really? Come on.
Isn't it more likely he was trying to put it in the corner?