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#3 Eder (Portugal) - European Championship final (2016)
Eder etched his name in Portuguese folklore when he made an unlikely appearance in the Euro 2016 final against France and netted the only goal of the game in extra time to stun the hosts.
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An hour before the greatest moment of his career, Eder came on after Portugal's captain Cristiano Ronaldo hobbled off the pitch after a clumsy tackle from Dimitri Payet.
But far from getting awed by the occasion, Portugal hung on without their talisman to force extra time, where Eder made his decisive contribution. With the game 11 minutes away from a penalty shootout, the 28-year-old beat Laurent Koscielny and unleashed a venomous strike that beat the French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.
With the French unable to muster a response, Portugal celebrated their finest hour in international football. Eder would say after the game:
"The ugly duckling went and scored. Now he's a beautiful swan."
The Euro 2016 winners will be forever indebted to a player who arrived in the country at the age of two, but couldn't grow up with his parents. Eder played only five times after that game, scoring once, but he has done enough to be forever remembered with fondness by the Portugal faithful.
#2 Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) - Champions League final (2018)
Gareth Bale had a point to prove when he was not named by Zinedine Zidane in Real Madrid's starting XI in the 2018 Champions League final in Cardiff.
After Karim Benzema's opener was canceled out by Sadio Mane inside four minutes, it was time for Gareth Bale to enter the fray. The Welshman came on for Isco and made a telling impact.
He had been on the field for barely two minutes when he scored one of the best-ever goals in a Champions League final. Bale's sumptuous bicycle kick bulged the Liverpool net as Madrid restored their lead, which they would not relinquish.
Such was the quality of the finish that Zinedine Zidane, himself the scorer of a memorable strike in a Champions League final, stood transfixed for a while before erupting.
Seven minutes from time, Bale scored his second of the night to seal Real Madrid's unprecedented three-peat. Unsurprisingly, the Welshman was the Man of the Match on a day he produced arguably the most impactful performance of his Real Madrid career.
#1 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - Champions League final (1999)
In terms of the greatest impact by a substitute in the history of the game, very few would beat Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's effort in the 1999 Champions League final.
Considering his knack of making an impact off the bench, the diminutive Norwegian entered the fray with ten minutes remaining as Manchester United trailed Bayern Munich by a solitary goal.
After another substitute, Teddy Sheringham, bagged an injury-time equalizer, Solskjaer scored a 93rd minute with an opportunistic flick to seal United's most improbable of triumphs. Sir Alex Ferguson's men won the continental treble that season.
Recalling his strike on that memorable night in Barcelona, Solskjaer later said:
“The goal wasn’t practised or prepared for, it was just instinct from many years as a striker. It was about being in the box and knowing how to guide it towards goal. I was lucky to flick it on, and that it went under the crossbar, not over it.”
Two decades later, Solskjaer is now the manager of Manchester United.
