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Euro 2020 Group A: Joel Pohjanpalo scored the only goal of the game in a match that was completely overshadowed by the collapse and subsequent resuscitation of Christian Eriksen just before half-time.

Thank you. It’s been a strange evening, dear Reader. Thanks for all your kind messages and Tweets, enquiring after my welfare and providing welcome translations. I am absolutely fine but as much as I’d love to make this all about me, I don’t think it would be approriate. There’ll be a match report along at some point but in the meantime I’ll leave you with this ...

Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeep! It’s an extraordinary, historic and a momentous result for Finland, whose players will be well aware and completely happy in the knowledge that for all their heroism, this match won’t be remembered for the result.

Congratulations to them, their opponents, the match officials, the backroom staff of both teams and the medics, not to mention all those in the stands for all their efforts – some of them apparently life-saving and heroic - on a very difficult and surreal evening in Copenhagen.

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90+4 min: Another long ball towards Vestergaard is hoofed clear. It’s all over.

90+3 min: Denmark are lumping it towards the Finland goal and hoping for the best with the game deep in added time.

89 min: Jannik Vestergaard is now playing in attack for Denmark, for whom time is running out. The result of this match is academic, of course. Their only concern will be for their stricken team-mate Christian Eriksen, who is reported to be stable in hospital after collapsing in the first half and receiving CPR on the pitch.

87 min: Finland goalkeeper Hradecky flaps at a cross that sails to the feet of Poulsen. The Dane is unable to react quickly enough to score beforethe ball’s hacked clear.

85 min: Going back to the penalty won by Denmark - I’ve just seen it again and I don’t think Youssef Poulsen was touched before he went to ground.

84 min: Finland substitution: Brentford’s Marcus Forss replaces the goalscorer, Joel Pohjanpalo.

81 min: Brilliant defending from Finland’s Robin Lod, who slides in to hook clear as Jensen tried to connect with a ball squared by Vestergaard in the six-yard box. Jensen takes the corner, which Hradecky punches clear.

80 min: While I was taking care of the replacement admin, Braithwaite failed to pick out Cornbleius with a half-shot, half-cross from the right.

79 min: Danish substitution: Andreas Cornelius on for Thomas Delaney. Finland double-substitution: Joni Kauko and Rasmus Schuller on for Teemu Pukki and Tim Sparv.

77 min: I must confess I thought it was a very soft penalty that would be overturned on review. Referee Anthony Taylor thought long and hard about it before pointing to the spot.

75 min: With the obvious ongoing caveat that Hjobjerg has more important things on his mind at the moment, that was a woeful penalty-kick. He aimed for the bottom right-hand corner but got nowhere near it. Hradecky guessed the right way and saved comfortably.

It’s a dreadful effort from Hjobjerg, whose shot is stopped by Lukas Hradecky.

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72 min: Arajuri is adjudged to have brought down Poulsen as the Dane chased a through ball into the penalty area from Thomas Delaney.

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70 min: Youssef Poulsen finds a pocket of space oin the edge of the six-yard box and leaps to try and get his head to a ball from deep from Braithwaite. It’s a mite too high.

70 min: Danish right-back Daniel Wassd has never scored for his country and looking at that high effort he just sent over the cross-bar from the edge of the penalty area it’s not difficult to see why.

67 min: Denmark’s Mathias Jensen is penalised for clattering into Jere Urenon.

66 min: Danish double-substitution: Jannick Vestergaard and Andreas Olsen replaced Simon Kjaer and Jonas Wind moments after Finland scored.

63 min: On any other day I’d say Kasper Schmeichel should have done better but you can forgive him for being distracted this evening. Pohjanpalo’s header wasn’t brilliant, a downward effort that bounced straight in front of Schmeichel and went past him. The goalscorer wheeled away in celebration before reining in his completely undertsandable basic instincts.

60 min: An already weird match takes another strange turn as Finland go ahead. Jere Urenon crossed from the left and Joel Pohjanpalo got the run on his man to leap and plant a downwards header past Kasper Schmeichel.

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Finland take the lead!

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58 min: Martin Braithwaite canters down the inside left and squares the ball for Jonas Wind. Under pressure from his marker, he’s not able to make clean contact and steer the ball goalwards. It breaks for Thomas Delaney, who sends a shot high over the bar.

56 min: It may have been scoreless in the first half but Denmark were battering Finland prior to Eriksen’s collapse. They’re still dominating now that play has resumed but the game is comparatively sedate.

55 min: Danish left-back Joakim Maehle skips away from Glen Kamara but makes a dog’s breakfast of his shot from distance.

54 min: Teemu Pukki is penalised for a high boot as he comes close to kicking Simon Kjaer in the head while trying to win a loose ball.

53 min: Mathias Jensen has been kept busy since replacing Eriksen. He’s teed up by Hjobjerg but shoots high over the bar from distance.

51 min: Finland captain Tim Sparv is booked for a foul on Yurary (aka Yussuf Poulsen). Jensen’s free-kick from deep is cleared.

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49 min: Mathias Jensen takes the set-piece and his delivery is cleared by Paulus Arajuuri, who thumps it away with his head.

48 min: Martin Braithwaite tries to get on the end of a good cross from the right but the ball is intercepted by Jukka Raitala. Corner for Denmark.

48 min: Corner for Denmark. The ball’s swung towards the near post, where Finland clear.

46 min: Play re-resumes after a quick turnaround in what seems likely to be one of the strangest games I’m ever like to provide commentary of a sort on. One thing’s for sure, and I am not in any way trying to be glib, the players of Finland certainly won’t forget their Big Tournament debut in a hurry.

Peep! Well, that was ... eventful. The first half finishes scoreless, with the players of both teams having apparently agreed to continue following a long break in play for treatment to the stricken Christian Eriksen, who collapsed and had to receive CPR. He is reported to be stable in hospital, awake and talking.

45+1 min: Finland goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky was kept busy before the break in play and finds himself in possession again, collecting a cross from the right.

44 min: Thomas Delaney goes in hard on Robin Lod, relieving the Finn of possession.