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What articles? I had a look on UEFA and there’s nothing on Lambert. Was this an ITV motm award?its often cited in articles on the final. Makes sense, as he marked Zidane out of the final and set up the first goal.
He made an important contribution (and it was his reverse cross into the box which Rieldle controlled with his chest and buried for his first goal), but I think it’s been overblown by people from here. “Marking him out of the game”...Zidane hit the post, and he wasn’t a prolific scorer either (2 goals in Europe, 7 in total). I think it’s revisionist because of the player Zidane later became.
When Roy Keane grabbed United by the scruff of the neck in the CL semi at Juve it well documented at the time, I recall nothing on Lambert in the CL final, and I vividly remember that game.