Christian Eriksen has stepped up his push to return to frontline football after another impressive friendly run-out for Brentford. The 30-year-old Denmark international, who suffered a cardiac arrest during his country’s Euro 2020 match against Finland in June, played 78 minutes of a behind-closed-doors game against a Rangers XI in Glasgow on Monday and provided two assists in a 2-2 draw. Eriksen crossed for Zanka to head Brentford into an early lead and, after Amad Diallo’s double had given the home side a 2-1 lead, he sent in the free-kick from which Tristan Crama levelled. The former Tottenham playmaker joined Brentford until the end of the season in January after leaving Internazionale by mutual consent. The rules in Italy would not allow him to play after having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) fitted. He returned to action on Monday last week in another training-ground friendly, a 3-2 win against Southend during which he set up Josh Dasilva for the first goal of a hat-trick. Eriksen will hope he has done enough to earn a place in the senior squad to play Newcastle at the Brentford Community Stadium on Saturday.