Mathias Jensen leans back and throws his arms above his head.
‘I knew something was wrong,’ the midfielder begins. ‘Suddenly blood was coming out of my boot.’ His hands draw a rather gruesome diagram. Like a ‘fountain,’ he says.
Someone trod on Jensen’s foot, a stud went through his boot and opened up a nasty gash that ended Jensen’s Euro 2020.
Denmark’s Mathias Jensen has opened up on the traumatic events of this summer’s Euro 2020
Jensen (above) has spoken to Sportsmail in his first interview since this summer’s competition
Barely 15 minutes after coming on in Denmark’s semi-final against England, he was whisked towards a hidden corner of Wembley.
‘I just saw the final minutes on my phone,’ Jensen says. A few feet away doctors sewed his skin back together.
That wound has healed now. Alas, scars remain from the tournament — from another substitute appearance, another few minutes spent watching on, helpless. That day, the drama unfolded in rather sharper focus.
If Jensen slipped off without much of Wembley noticing, the final moments of Christian Eriksen’s Euro 2020 will linger with everyone. Not least the man who replaced him.
‘It was an out-of-body experience,’ Jensen tells Sportsmail in his first interview since. ‘I can’t even remember that second half. Normally you remember situations in the game, what you could have done better… but I don’t remember anything.’
Just 41 minutes into Denmark’s opening game against Finland, Eriksen had collapsed on to the Parken pitch.
‘You could see when he received the ball that it wasn’t a normal touch for Christian,’ Jensen, 25, recalls. ‘You just knew straightaway that something was wrong. I was told to go to warm up. So the first couple of minutes I didn’t really see too much.’
As well as experiencing team-mate Christian Eriksen collapse on the pitch (top image), Jensen himself was substituted off in the semi-final loss against England with a gruesome foot injury
Only the rush of paramedics slowed…
Source : dailymail
