Kasper Schmeichel has said Christian Eriksen is in good spirits after visiting him in hospital and that the Denmark squad are determined to honour their teammate in their remaining Euro 2020 matches.
Schmeichel was one of the first on the scene to attend his stricken teammate, who collapsed in the 42nd-minute of Saturday's Group B match against Finland in Copenhagen.
Eriksen, 29, suffered cardiac arrest was treated by medical staff for around 15 minutes on the pitch, with Denmark team doctor Morten Boesen later admitting the player had "gone" and had to be resuscitated before being transferred to a nearby hospital.
“We’re still in the tournament. Now, we have to try to see if we can win this and do it for Christian and do it for all the fans who sat with us and were just as powerless in the situation as we were,” Schmeichel told broadcaster DR.
Denmark’s final two Group B games are against Belgium on Thursday and Russia next Monday.
“I have no doubt that this team has the unity, the strength to be able to come together and go out and do something special.”
Schmeichel, who could be seen consoling Eriksen's distraught partner alongside captain Simon Kjaer on the halfway line, said he had visited Inter Milan midfielder Eriksen in hospital and that it was "damn nice to see him smile and laugh" as he continues his recovery.
"It was a great experience and something that has helped me a lot.”
Danish players expressed dissatisfaction on Monday at the position they were put in after Eriksen's collapse.
Players on both sides were visibly distressed with the Danes even forming a protective guard around Eriksen as he received treatment.
Governing body Uefa offered the players the choice of resuming the match on Saturday night or beginning again on Sunday at 12pm time.
However, in a new development, Schmeichel's father, Peter, part of the Denmark squad that pulled off a shock triumph at Euro '92, claimed on Britain's This Morning show that if the Danes did not pick one of the first two options then they would forfeit the match 3-0.
While the younger Schmeichel made no mention of that claim, it was clear the players felt they were left with little option but to play out the remaining 50 minutes at Parken Stadium.
“We were put in a position I don’t think we should have been put in,” Kasper Schmeichel said. “It probably required that someone above us had said that it was not the time to make a decision and maybe should wait for the next day.”
European football’s governing body wrote on Twitter on Saturday that the match would be restarted “following the request made by players of both teams”.
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Denmark coach Kasper Hjulmand said on Sunday that he did not think that the players should have been back on the pitch, while Jonas Baer-Hoffman, general secretary of international players' union FIFPRO, said the decision should not have been made in the immediate aftermath of the incident.
"It would have been better to cancel the game in that evening. Take a bit of time, take a breath, look at it with a bit more distance, look at what are the options to carry on with the game or not, and if the game can't be replayed then I think also that would not be very important in comparison to what happened there to Christian," Baer-Hoffman told Reuters.
"The players were probably not given a real option in terms of taking a good decision that was in that moment in balance with where they were mentally," he added.
"There's a lot of lessons that need to be drawn from this," he said, adding that they would be conducting a review with Uefa.
Denmark striker Martin Braithwaite said on Monday: “We had two options. None of the options were good. We took the least bad one. There were a lot of players that weren’t able to play the match. They were elsewhere [mentally]. You could have wished for a third option in this situation.”
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When Saturday
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Who is competing There are 22 drivers, from 11 teams, on the grid, with each vehicle run solely on electronic power.
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Rugby World Cup (all times UAE)
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