Just over an hour after Christian Eriksen's collapse, Uefa announced that the match would resume.
Either they had to continue playing on Saturday night or postpone the match until 12 o'clock today.
Two alternatives that were met with criticism from outside, including from the former major player Michael Laudrup.
However, the Danish players must have made the decision to play clearly the same evening, after they had been in contact with Eriksen from the hospital bed, and realized that the situation was stable.
- They play for him, said the Danish Football Association's chairman Peter Möller before the match was completed.
The match was played clearly, and Finland scored three points.
Three points that came in their first European Championship match ever.
After the match, it was a taken, but collected Teemu Pukki who met the media.
- It was definitely one of the hardest matches in my career.
Hopefully everything will be fine now, he says.
"We adapted"
According to the Norwich striker, the match was resumed the same evening at the request of the Danish side.
- We let the Danish players decide how they wanted to handle the situation and we adapted accordingly.
It was really not easy to go out on the field again, but as soon as we heard that everything seemed good, we started to focus on the match again, says Pukki and continues:
- We are happy with the win.
The atmosphere after the match was obviously not as euphoric as otherwise, but we took three important points.
Finnish team captain Tim Sparv was also deeply affected after the match.
“What a roller coaster yesterday was.
Our thoughts are with Christian Eriksen and his loved ones during this difficult time.
Football is insignificant when something like this happens ", tweeted Sparrow.