 Belgium has eased a three-nil opening year 2020 win over Russia, but concede that the victory afoot note after the frightening collapse of Denmark playmaker Christian Ericsson, a long-time teammate and friend of several Belgian players. His Inter Milan team, Romelu Lukaku, paid tribute to his club teammate during the March after scoring the fourth of his two goals. Ericsson was earlier rushed to hospital after collapsing during the March with Finland and been given CPR on the pitch, with soccer officials later saying the player was stable and awake much to the relief of team-mates and fans. In the post-March news conference, Lukaku said he had shed a few tears when he had the news and his thoughts were with Ericsson and his family. It's the first time that I've been through this as a football player with a teammate of mine that I'm playing actually with. I had daily blint when he was at Ajax. He had a similar situation and now with Christian we play together, like I said on the pitch when I did the interview, I spent more time with him than with my own family. So for me it was really difficult to get my mind together. I shed a few tears because I was thinking about his family, his kids, his girlfriend, his parents, his sister, and also my team. We spent a lot of time together, we won together, so to see him going down like that, representing his country, in his country, it was very, very tough and it was really difficult for me to focus. My teammates helped me and I'm grateful to my teammates who gave me through it. My thoughts are with Christian and his family for sure.