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  "summary": "The 1998/99 final at the Camp Nou on 26 May 1999 ended Manchester United 2-1 Bayern Munchen after Bayern had led for 85 minutes: two substitutes, Teddy Sheringham in the 91st minute and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer two minutes later, turned the final around to give United their first European Cup since 1968 and complete a treble inside ten days.",
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  "questions": [
    "Who won the 1999 Champions League final?",
    "What happened in the Manchester United comeback against Bayern in 1999?",
    "Who scored in the 1999 Champions League final?"
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      "id": "c1",
      "text": "Manchester United beat Bayern Munchen 2-1 in the 1998/99 Champions League final at the Camp Nou in Barcelona on 26 May 1999, in front of a crowd of 90,245; Mario Basler's early free-kick put Bayern ahead and they led for 85 minutes.",
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      "text": "Teddy Sheringham levelled in the 91st minute, diverting in Ryan Giggs' mis-hit shot from a cleared corner, and two minutes later nodded on David Beckham's corner for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to prod in the winner. Both scorers were substitutes introduced by Alex Ferguson, Solskjaer with nine minutes remaining.",
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      "id": "c3",
      "text": "United played the final without the suspended midfield pair Roy Keane and Paul Scholes and could not control midfield; late on Carsten Jancker's acrobatic overhead kick hit the United crossbar, the turning point before the comeback.",
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      "text": "It was Manchester United's first European Cup since 1968, and completed a run of three trophies won in a ten-day period. On the way they had come from 2-0 down at Juventus in the semi-final, trailing 3-1 on aggregate, to win 3-2.",
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      "text": "UEFA's own retrospective places the 1999 final among the most dramatic in the competition's history, in a shortlist with Milan 4-0 Barcelona (1994), the Istanbul final of 2005, Bayern 1-1 Chelsea (2012) and Real Madrid 4-1 Atletico (2014).",
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      "confidence": 0.93
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  "winning_edge": "The comeback exactly as UEFA records it - 91st minute, then two minutes later, both goals by substitutes, with the Jancker crossbar moment that preceded them - against retellings that compress it to \"two injury-time goals\" and misattribute the assists. The Giggs mis-hit and the Beckham corner are the two details most often swapped.",
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