Christian Eriksen feels '100% secure to go back'

Christian Eriksen says he has no anxiety about playing his first match for Brentford.

The Denmark international has not played since he suffered a cardiac arrest in a Euro 2020 match with Finland last summer but completed a return to the Premier League on the final day of the January transfer window.

Bees boss Thomas Frank revealed on Friday the former Tottenham playmaker will play in a behind-closed-doors friendly on Monday which could open the door for him to be involved at Arsenal on 19 February .

"Of course it is getting closer and closer by, I do feel in my head and body that the excitement is coming, the adrenaline is coming more and more towards game time," Eriksen said at his unveilling press conference on Friday.

"If there was any anxiety, I wouldn't go back. If I wasn't fully committed and felt like I am trusting of the doctors, trusting of my heart, trusting of my ICD in me, then I wouldn't go back. No, I feel 100 per cent secure to go back."

The 29-year-old has previously worked with Frank in the Danish age-group teams and yet had no ambitions to return to England before he suffered a cardiac arrest, having spent six-and-a-half years in the UK with Tottenham before a January exit in 2020.

He said: "I want to come in and first of all help the club and help my team-mates to stay in the Premier League.

"I would say before there was no plan to come back to England, that was not on my mind. After the incident it became clearer and clearer the longer it went on that I couldn't play in Italy because of the ICD I have.

"My mindset then of course changed that if it can't be Italy, the best option would be England, in the Premier League and being in a London club, also for the family, was the perfect mix."

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