International tournaments are all about focus and preparation, and on the morning of Belgium’s opening clash with Russia, Christian Benteke and co. were ready to get their campaign underway. Then everything changed.
“It happened on the day we were playing,” he remembers, speaking to Palace from the training camp in his native Belgium. The incident he is referring to shocked the football world to its core.
As Denmark, roared on by a boisterous home support in Copenhagen, looked to turn the screw on Finland, Christian Eriksen fell to the ground. It was immediately clear something was wrong.