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It was a heartwarming image amid a heartbreaking scene.

There was Seamus Coleman, in shock from a horrific double leg break, being comforted by Republic of Ireland teammate Shane Long.

As the Everton defender received treatment, and oxygen, before being carried off on a stretcher, it was Long who held and consoled him.

“I was just trying to settle and relax him,” the Southampton striker would later reveal.

And Long may have used some techniques learned during his wife’s pregnancy in order to do so.

Wife Kayleah told the Sunday Independent: “I had a hypnotherapy birth and they taught Shane to help me to breathe through it.

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“He told me: ‘It all came back to me. I was just talking to Seamus, teaching him how to breathe through it.’ He remembered it all.

“I asked if Seamus was listening to him and he said, ‘Yes, to be fair, he was. He was really breathing well.”

Kayleah added that Coleman sent Long a text message after the game to thank him for his support during the immediate aftermath of the injury.

Coleman underwent successful surgery in Dublin on Saturday, and will now begin the long road back to fitness. He is expected to be missing until the end of the year.