HELSINGØR (Denmark): Denmark’s goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel along with striker Martin Braithwaite on Monday lamented that they needed to decide whether to restart the Denmark-Finland Euro 2020 game while they have been peeking from Christian Eriksen’s mid-game collapse.
“We had been put at a situation that I feel that we should not have been set up,” Schmeichel told Danish press in a media event in Helsingor north of Copenhagen.
“We had two choices,” Schmeichel clarified.
“Either return the day after (Sunday) at dusk or keep the match.” The Leicester City goalkeeper stated he wanted someone more mature would have said”it was not the opportunity to choose that choice, which we should wait till the day following to pick”.
“What’s happened has happened, and they’ll learn from that,” Schmeichel said, since he commended what he believed that the true”heroes” of this match, the medics.
Barcelona striker Martin Braithwaite said that the players could have”needed a third choice, since we did not wish to play with,” imagining that the choice to restart the match has been”not a desire”.
“It had been among those only options we had, and we had been told we ought to make a determination,” Braithwaite said.
The comments mark the first time because Eriksen’s remarkable collapse and cardiac arrest Saturday from the match against Finland his teammates have spoken to the media.
Eriksen’s illness remains”secure” and”great”, Jakob Hoyer, the Football Union’s communications manager said, adding that the participant stayed in hospital.
The players could speak to Eriksen through a video phone Sunday, and he was likewise seen at the hospital from Schmeichel.
“He explained in his own manner that we need to anticipate the match on Thursday (contrary to Belgium).
It meant that a great deal,” midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, who missed a punishment from Finland after the resume, told Danish press.