Eriksen in a stable condition, remains in hospital
FABRICE Muamba has spoken about how watching Christian Eriksen receive life-saving treatment at Euro 2020 brought back emotional memories of his own cardiac arrest as a doctor warned the Dane was unlikely to play again.
Eriksen received CPR as his distraught teammates formed a circle around him to shield the stricken player from the view of 16 000 stunned fans in Copenhagen on Saturday. The Finns won 1-0 thanks to a Joel Pohjanpalo header in their first-ever appearance in the European Championship, but Eriksen's plight overshadowed the match.
Muamba, the former Bolton Wanderers midfielder who collapsed after suffering a cardiac arrest during a televised FA Cup game in 2012, tweeted “Please God” following the incident.
“To watch it from that distance and not knowing the expectation of what was going to happen - it's scary,” he told the BBC. “It's credit to the medical staff that they've come in and they did an amazing job on Christian.”
Muamba said he was impressed
by how Eriksen's teammates had surrounded him to “protect the whole situation”.
“It just brought back emotion that you've literally put down there for a long time that you don't want to re-live,” he said. “To see it on the other side, when it happened I asked my missus ‘how did you even cope knowing this has happened to me'?
“I'm hoping that things turn out to be okay for him. I really, really, really hope he comes through.”
Eriksen remained in hospital but is in a “stable” condition after the medical emergency, the Danish Football Union (DBU) said yesterday.
“This morning we have spoken to Christian Eriksen, who has sent his greetings to his teammates. His condition is stable, and he continues to be hospitalised for further examination,” the football body said in a post to Twitter.