Eriksen got here on within the 52nd minute in Brentford’s 2-0 loss to Newcastle United within the Premier League on Saturday.
He acquired a hero’s welcome from all 4 corners of the Brentford Community Stadium as he stepped onto the pitch for the primary time in eight months.
“If you are taking away the outcome, I’m one pleased man. To undergo what I’ve been by means of, being again is a superb feeling,” Eriksen mentioned afterward.
“You can by no means predict the sport. I do not suppose anybody predicted we might be right down to 10 males so early. The guys did what they might. It was struggle in the long run.
“It’s been very particular since day one.”
The former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder signed with Brentford till the top of the present season, having not performed since he collapsed throughout Denmark’s recreation in opposition to Finland in Copenhagen final 12 months.
The 29-year-old acquired life-saving therapy on the pitch and was subsequently fitted with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) gadget — a kind of pacemaker supposed to forestall deadly cardiac arrests by discharging a jolt to revive common coronary heart rhythm.
Serie A membership Inter Milan — whom Eriksen had been contracted to on the time of the incident — introduced in December that he can be allowed to maneuver overseas so as to proceed his soccer profession, with the midfielder unable to play in Italy except the ICD gadget was eliminated.
At the top of the 12 months he was coaching with former membership Odense Boldklub in Denmark, with Eriksen asserting in January that his coronary heart was “not an impediment” to his ambitions of a return to soccer and to play within the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
And he lastly made his first look on a pitch on Saturday, approaching as a second half substitute together with his facet already 2-0 down.
Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank “did not say a lot” once I got here on, Eriksen mentioned. “I’ve been talking to him daily for the previous couple of weeks. He simply mentioned good luck and benefit from the recreation.”
The Danish worldwide confirmed a number of of his trademark elegant touches, however, given he is been away for nearly 9 months, understandably regarded barely rusty.
Eriksen could not cease Brentford dropping to Newcastle nonetheless, a outcome which suggests the London workforce sits simply three factors above the relegation zone with 11 matches to play.
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“I believe for everybody in soccer, it was an enormous second,” Frank mentioned. “He obtained an enormous reception, from the Newcastle followers and all our followers, and it was massive for Christian and his household. It was good to see and hopefully now he can discuss together with his toes and converse solely about soccer.
“I’ve been privileged to see him in coaching during the last three weeks, and also you noticed some glimpses of brilliance right here, the balls in behind, among the passing.
“I’m satisfied 100% he’ll assist us going ahead. He’s a high, high participant and he will add lots of worth to our workforce.”