Copenhagen (dpa) – When returning to the place of his collapse at the European Football Championship last year, Denmark’s midfield star Christian Eriksen will appear right from the start.
The 30-year-old will be in the starting XI for the Danish national team’s friendly against Serbia on Tuesday at Copenhagen’s Parken Stadium, national coach Kasper Hjulmand announced on Sunday, according to the Ritzau news agency. It remains to be seen whether the 110-time national player will even be the team captain, said the former Mainz coach.
Poulsen and Delaney are absent
On the other hand, Hjulmand has to do without the injured Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig) and ex-Bundesliga professional Thomas Delaney (FC Sevilla). The Augsburg Mads Pedersen moves against the Serbs in the squad, as the Danish Football Association DBU wrote on Twitter.
Eriksen had celebrated his comeback in the national team in the 2: 4 (1: 3) against the Netherlands and scored the 2: 3 goal just under two minutes after being substituted on. The friendly in Amsterdam was his first international match in over nine months. On June 12, 2021, Eriksen collapsed on the grass with cardiac arrest during the European Championship match against Finland. Paramedics saved his life.