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World Cup 2010: Steven Gerrard admits mistakes cost England in 4-1 loss to Germany
Skipper disappointed with poor defending…
27 Jun 2010 17:52:00
By Danny Hart
Steven Gerrard says Germany deserved to win against England after ending the Three Lions’ World Cup 2010 in emphatic style.
Joachim Loew’s side went 2-0 up through Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski before Matthew Upson pulled a goal back before half-time.
Thomas Mueller then grabbed a second-half brace, converting two chances from poorly-defended counter attacks to win 4-1 and set up a tie with either Argentina or Mexico.
Gerrard says Germany deserve to progress to the quarter-finals and admits England weren’t good enough.
“Germany are a fantastic team and deserved to win,” Gerrard told BBC Radio 5 live.
“Unfortunately as a team we made big mistakes today and got punished.
“They were more clinical in front of goal and made less mistakes than us.”
The skipper also admits England were poor defensively, but believes the game was closer than the scoreline suggests.
“We are suffering at the moment from a 4-1 defeat. It looks like we took a hiding but that wasn't the case,” Gerrard added.
“As a team we weren't defensively solid enough. We need to analyse where we went wrong defensively.”
Frank Lampard looked to have equalised for England after seeing his chip from the edge of the area bounce back off the crossbar and over the goal-line, but referee Jorge Larrionda wrongly decided not to allow the goal.
“There were some big decisions in the game - at 2-1 we had a goal disallowed that would have given us confidence," added Gerrard.
“I think it [ the disallowed goal] had an effect but we can't use that as an excuse. It looks like a comfortable win for Germany [but] we can't go looking for one key moment.
“That would have been a big goal for us. That would have been a killer blow for Germany and maybe we would have gone on and won it.”
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Joachim Loew’s side went 2-0 up through Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski before Matthew Upson pulled a goal back before half-time.
Thomas Mueller then grabbed a second-half brace, converting two chances from poorly-defended counter attacks to win 4-1 and set up a tie with either Argentina or Mexico.
Gerrard says Germany deserve to progress to the quarter-finals and admits England weren’t good enough.
“Germany are a fantastic team and deserved to win,” Gerrard told BBC Radio 5 live.
“Unfortunately as a team we made big mistakes today and got punished.
“They were more clinical in front of goal and made less mistakes than us.”
The skipper also admits England were poor defensively, but believes the game was closer than the scoreline suggests.
“We are suffering at the moment from a 4-1 defeat. It looks like we took a hiding but that wasn't the case,” Gerrard added.
“As a team we weren't defensively solid enough. We need to analyse where we went wrong defensively.”
Frank Lampard looked to have equalised for England after seeing his chip from the edge of the area bounce back off the crossbar and over the goal-line, but referee Jorge Larrionda wrongly decided not to allow the goal.
“There were some big decisions in the game - at 2-1 we had a goal disallowed that would have given us confidence," added Gerrard.
“I think it [ the disallowed goal] had an effect but we can't use that as an excuse. It looks like a comfortable win for Germany [but] we can't go looking for one key moment.
“That would have been a big goal for us. That would have been a killer blow for Germany and maybe we would have gone on and won it.”
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