The Scottish optimism that wafted across Munich throughout Friday always felt like a collective hypnosis, a belief fueled by booze.
It was a dream those fans hung on to dearly, until Florian Wirtz and Jamal Musiala started turning it into a nightmare inside 10 minutes of their Euro 2024 opener.
The Tartan Army were under the mistaken impression that this was their party, but it wasn’t.
Their mortification was that, having paid through the nose to be here, many of them might have paid the same again to be anywhere else but Munich.
We can think back to those early shell-shocking moments and examine how they unfolded.
The wonderful Wirtz allowed space and time by his hesitant marker, Anthony Ralston.
Then a second; Kai Havertz running away from Ralston and setting up the equally brilliant, Musiala.
