Denmark team doctor Morten Boesen revealed he felt Inter midfielder Christian Eriksen’s pulse slipping away and ‘started giving him CPR’.

The playmaker collapsed on the pitch in the first half of Denmark’s 1-0 defeat to Finland, and for 12 minutes the world of football stood completely still.

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Eriksen was lying unconscious on the pitch, first helped by his teammates and then the medical staff, before he was carried off the pitch and sent to hospital.

The reports arrived of a stable Eriksen, but the team doctor spoke about the horrible scenes to AP.

“He was breathing, and I could feel his pulse. But suddenly that changed,” Boesen told AP. “And as everyone saw, we started giving him CPR.”

The TV images showed the Denmark players in shock, some of them couldn’t hold the tears back, as they shielded the player from the cameras in Parken Stadium.

It took 12 minutes from when he went down to when he was carried away, but Boesen said they had been able to get him back before sending him with the ambulance.

“We managed to get Christian back. And he spoke to me before he was taken to the hospital.”

UEFA and DBU (the Danish FA) confirmed he was ‘awake and stable’, before the match was resumed at 19.30 UK time ‘at request by the players’.

Eriksen had reportedly spoken to his teammates over the phone and asked them to complete the 90 minutes against Finland.

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