World Cup 2022 – England proud despite defeat to France: “In my opinion, the best team lost tonight”

Young Bellingham, however, did not have much to blame himself for. At the age of 19, one of the leaders of these Three Lions, he obviously made the Blues tremble. The English team then underlined their pride in chasing the world champions so hard.

Not willing to argue about arbitration

“Our performance was good, but the goals were decisiveGareth Southgate explained later. I told the players, they couldn’t have given more, they played well against a great team. This is a minimum margin. But the way this team has progressed in this tournament is obviously fantastic.“.

Launched into refereeing decisions, the English coach will be very classy, ​​refusing to enter the debate, although this Saturday is taking place in the media in the English press. “I don’t want to talk about that, I want to talk about our players and congratulate France. We gave them a real fight“.”We are not happy with some of the results, but in the end we are the losers, so we are responsible for this defeat“, finished off Declan Rice in the mixed zone.

In the end it was Rice who was the most vocal and perhaps the most honest when discussing this quarterback who managed to get away with them. “We’re not necessarily too confident, but enough to think about getting past France and winning. Other than their two goals, I don’t remember seeing them being creativeWest Ham promoted the midfielder. In my opinion, the best team lost tonight and that proves our position“.

A golden future?

But these young people have a future and a lot more to aspire to. If Gareth Southgate doesn’t want to comment on his future as Three Lions boss, his work since 2016 has allowed the team to move closer to the top. Lacking this luck, experience, this little extra thing to turn to the good side.

It was Rice who summed up the bubble even better but less successfully: “If you look at the team, we are young. With a lot of good players. We are seeing people start trusting us again and the country is pushing us. It hasn’t been like that for a few years, so we can be proud of ourselves, but we have to go back. Because ultimately, international football is judged by success“.