Denmark’s goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel and striker Martin Braithwaite on Monday lamented that they’d to decide on whether or not to restart the Denmark-Finland Euro 2020 match whereas they had been reeling from Christian Eriksen’s mid-game collapse. “We had been put ready, that I personally really feel that we should not have been put in,” Schmeichel advised Danish media at a press occasion in Helsingor north of Copenhagen. “We had two choices,” Schmeichel defined. “Both come again the day after (Sunday) at midday or proceed the sport.”
The Leicester Metropolis goalkeeper mentioned he wished somebody extra senior would’ve mentioned “that it wasn’t the time to take that call, and that we must always possibly wait till the day after to resolve”.
“What has occurred has occurred, and hopefully they’re going to be taught from this,” Schmeichel mentioned, as he praised what he thought of the actual “heroes” of the sport, the medics.
Barcelona striker Martin Braithwaite mentioned the gamers would have “wished a 3rd possibility, as a result of we did not wish to play,” noting that the choice to renew the sport was “not a want”.
“It was one of many solely potentialities we had, and we had been advised we must always decide,” Braithwaite mentioned.
The feedback mark the primary time since Eriksen’s dramatic collapse and cardiac arrest on Saturday within the recreation in opposition to Finland that his teammates have spoken to the press.
Eriksen’s situation remains to be “steady” and “good”, Jakob Hoyer, the Danish Football Union’s communications director mentioned, including that the participant remained in hospital.
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The gamers had been in a position to discuss to Eriksen by way of a video name on Sunday, and he was additionally visited within the hospital by Schmeichel.
“He mentioned in his personal approach that we must always look ahead to the sport on Thursday (in opposition to Belgium). It meant lots,” midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, who missed a penalty in opposition to Finland after the restart, advised Danish media.
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