STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — For Christian Eriksen, Denmark’s opening recreation on the European Championship was a a lot happier event this time.
The Manchester United midfielder scored the opening purpose in a 1-1 draw with Slovenia on Sunday. It was his first match on the Euros since struggling a cardiac arrest in Denmark’s opener within the earlier version of the event in 2021.
Eriksen neatly slotted a end into the nook within the seventeenth minute of the Group C recreation in Stuttgart.
Erik Janza equalized for Slovenia within the 77th with a shot that took an enormous deflection and span past Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.
It was precisely 1,100 days in the past that Eriksen collapsed on the sphere at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen whereas enjoying for Denmark towards Finland. In scary scenes, medics labored frenetically to provide him chest compressions earlier than he was carried away on a stretcher.
He returned to the game in 2022, fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, and — now aged 32 — remains to be an integral a part of a Denmark seeking to proceed its spectacular report at European Championship finals.
The Danes had been European champions in 1992 after coming into that event as a late substitute for war-torn Yugoslavia after which reached the semifinals at Euro 2020, which was held in 2021 due to the coronavirus.
Slovenia remains to be ready for its first win on the Euros. The nation’s solely different look was in 2000, when the crew drew two of its three video games and did not make it out of the group stage.
