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MOSCOW (Reuters) – England coach Gareth Southgate said his team to "suffer" their loss to Croatia in the World Cup semi-finals and understand the opportunity they have passed up to pondering the positive from their remarkable campaign.
Southgate's team made a fine start to their quest to become the first of two years to the second half of the second half to go to the Croatians after the extra time at the Luzhniki Stadium.
Given they arrived in Russia as rank outsiders, however, Southgate has been invited to a more comprehensive view of the United Kingdom and its team.
"I think that's something for a couple of days, at the moment we feel the pain of this defeat," he told reporters.
"Did we expect to be in this position? I do not realistically think any of us did. life.
"The dressing room is a really hard place at the moment. There will be time to take it, it's a bit too soon, really, because I think you've got the result a little bit.
"It's too easy to sometimes move on too quickly."
Gifted a relatively soft draw by the early exit of a traditional World Cup superpowers, England reached the semi-finals of a major tournament for the first time since Euro 1996, when Southgate was part of the team
RARE CHANCES
They had only previously been in the World Cup semi-finals in 1966, when they won the title, and 1990 so Southgate said he
"It was a great opportunity for us to be able to come back," he added.
"The goal of a semi-finals, semi-finals, finals – that was what we've gotten to do in the long term and we've proved that is possible."
" We have proved to be possible and we have proved to be possible. Now we have a new benchmark, a new level of expectation.
Southgate said that they have been playing in the middle of a second half of their lives. Perhaps a result of their inexperience.
"Maybe (that was) a consequence of being ahead and having the least experienced team in the tournament with the chance to get to a final World Cup," he added. that had an effect we did not want to take a lot of chances we had, subconsciously, I do not know.
"When you get to this stage of competition, the margins are fine … they've taken Two of their (chances) and we were not able to respond. "
(Editing by Ed Osmond)
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