It only took him two minutes to assert himself and shoot the connecting goal against the ropes. He shot the ball hard and high behind goalkeeper Mark Fleks in the 47th minute. So it became a dream comeback for the 30-year-old footballer in the ArenA.
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During the last European Championship, the shock was enormous, after Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest on the field and had to be resuscitated. In the meantime, the Dane who received a defibrillator is doing well again. It was already clear in advance that he would not start in the starting line-up, but in the second half he came within the lines.