It was June 29th.
After a group victory in Group E before Spain, Slovakia and Poland, Ukraine waited in the round of 16 for Sweden, with a quarter final against England in the pot.
A good chance in advance for Sweden to move on.
Even though it started in the worst way when Aleksandr Zinchenko shot 1-0 for Ukraine in the 27th minute, Janne Andersson had the feeling that it would still work.
- I still felt that this is a match that we have within reach.
Even though they got the first goal, I was not super stressed by it.
I thought we had some kind of control over this match, we should be able to solve this, Janne Andersson tells SVT Sport six months after the European Championship outing.
A lot in this match was about Emil Forsberg.
He shot the equalizer, and had two very good chances to give Sweden the upper hand, but both post and crossbar stood in the way.
Misses that still sting.
- I knew what to do, but I did not get the screw inward as I wanted.
It goes out instead.
But we were the better team, knew they had a half chance, but we had the pressure, says Emil Forsberg about the shot in the post.
"It just hurt"
Instead, the cold shower came in the extension.
First came the expulsion of Marcus Danielson.
- When the red comes, and it comes from absolutely nowhere.
Then it was just a matter of surviving the penalties and trying to hope for a half-chance, but when it came ... it hurt terribly, says Janne Andersson.
And that would make it even worse.
In the final minutes of extra time, Ukraine made it 2-1 through Artem Dovbyk.
Sweden was the result.
- Horrible.
It is the worst moment in his career, says Janne Andersson.
Even for Emil Forsberg, it is hard when he remembers back.
- It just hurt.
And that is probably the heaviest loss of his career.
Just the way we lost.
On how much fun we had, and how much we had in front of us, says Emil Forsberg.
The European Championship chronicle in its entirety can be seen on SVT on 30 December.