The Copenhagen coach Jacob Neestrup bristled at the memory. “I was a little bit surprised about some of the questions I got after the game from English journalists in terms of that we were quite tough to break down. “The talk we had at half-time in our dressing room was that we thought it was tough to break the opponent down." Manchester United were late for their pre-match press conference in Copenhagen, as they were in Munich in September.
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Christian Eriksen's impact was transformative and it was his cross that was converted by the renascent Harry Maguire. Eriksen will know better than most what lies in store for United in Denmark.
He first played at the Parken Stadion aged only 17 against England in a friendly back in February 2011 and it is the ground where Eriksen was resuscitated in June 2021.