The intensity of the game was only magnified by the final whistle and the prospect of sudden-death spot-kicks.

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Thanks to quick action by his wife, a nurse, he did not bleed to death on the spot and is recovering from his wound.

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But that achievement, for all its glory, was just the appetiser as, with the penalty shoot-out entering sudden death, Giggs stepped up to score the decisive spot kick and secure Manchester United's third triumph in European football's premier club competition.

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