Denmark players lament UEFA decision for match after Eriksen incident

According to

Denmark

forward

Martin Braithwaite

, the decision to their Euro 2020 opener against

Finland

following

Christian Eriksen

's cardiac arrest was the "least bad one".

midfielder

just before halftime and was taken to hospital after receiving CPR on the pitch. After a long suspension, the game resumed and the Finns went on to win 1-0.

UEFA offered the players, who gathered in the locker room after witnessing Eriksen being treated on the pitch following a cardiac arrest, the choice of resuming the match on Saturday night or beginning again on Sunday at 12.

"None of the options were good. We took the least bad one,"

Braithwaite said at a news conference on Monday

.

"There were lots of players who were unable to play. We were in a bad place. We made the least bad decision."

Kasper Schmeichel

was also agreed with

Braithwaite

that Denmark were put in a difficult spot.

"We have been put in a position where, on a personal level, I think we should not have been placed,"

he told reporters

.

"We had two options: either come back the next day [Sunday] at noon or resume the game.

"Someone higher up than us would have had to tell us that this was not the time to make such a decision, and that we should probably wait until the next day to decide.

"But what happened has happened, and let's hope they learn from it."

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