When you have spells, you have to make them count; we probably needed that second goal, we've come an incredible long way in a short space of time. We are probably beyond where we thought we might be able to go. So tonight we weren't quite there, but the team will be stronger for that.

Gareth Southgate

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England fans were singing the whole game but once it started happening everyone was shushing each other so when [Raheem] Sterling and [Tyrone] Mings got on the ball we could hear, it was really strange because everyone was on their phones, trying to work out what was going on.

Gareth Southgate

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Bizarre game really, poor errors for the goals but really pleased with the composure we showed to come back from the early mistake with some devastating attacking play, the mistakes were obvious, the errors, we have to be better. The players don't really need me to tell them that. We have mentioned it. The outstanding part of our play was obvious and the errors were obvious too.

Gareth Southgate

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Fabian Delph think we had a great chance to reach the final and we came up short, not just in the near future, I think for the rest of our lives we will be kicking ourselves thinking we had a real opportunity there.

Gareth Southgate

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Although our team will be better in two years with more life experience, maybe the cards on injuries and things won't fall as kindly and we won't get this opportunity again, it's dangerous if I start to get carried away, but I'm proud of the way we're playing.

Gareth Southgate

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The lads would always be prepared to risk injury for these games, but that can't be to the detriment of the performance level. When it gets to these games, they're not always as honest as they might be about how fit they are. So you've got to have a racehorse trainer's eye at times to really try and sort that out.

Gareth Southgate

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I've had a couple of decades thinking it through. It's not about luck. It's not about chance. It's about performing a skill under pressure, there are things you can work on, things that can be helpful for the preparation for the players. We have studied it. There is a lot we can do to own the process, and not be controlled by it.

Gareth Southgate

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It will never be off my back, sadly. That's something that will l... by Gareth Southgate

It will never be off my back, sadly. That's something that will live with me forever.

Gareth Southgate

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When something goes wrong in your life it doesn't finish you and you should become braver, knowing that you've got to go for things in life and don't regret( that) you didn't try to be as good as you might be.

Gareth Southgate

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I believed our goalkeeper would save one, and the technique of our players in taking them was superb. I have to credit our big support team who have done a lot of work in that area over the last few months.

Gareth Southgate

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We are getting smarter, and maybe played by the same rules as the rest of the world, but we kept our dignity and our sportsmanship and if we were down it was because we were fouled. I am proud of the discipline.

Gareth Southgate

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We have fantastic supporters who have had to stand with us through decades of disappointment and this was a really special moment for our country, today will give belief for generations to follow and not be hindered by history or expectations.

Gareth Southgate

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We want to win football matches, so we're not happy to come away from here having been beaten. But what that means for the next round, we don't really know, the knockout game is the biggest game for a decade, so we had to make sure our key players were preserved.

Gareth Southgate

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We created openings to get something from the game, but we have to keep improving. I think the supporters know what the most important thing is.

Gareth Southgate

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We still are top of the disciplinary count, but we don't really know if that is going to be an advantage.

Gareth Southgate

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We've got to think that through.

Gareth Southgate

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At 1-1 we had a plan to... keep probing but not get caught on the counter-attack, at the end the pressure built and built. We did the right things and made good decisions and were good value for the win.

Gareth Southgate

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For him I am personally delighted but I know the pride he will feel in leading his country to victory tonight will be the biggest for him.

Gareth Southgate

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I believe we can win it. Anyone can. I can't say we're not going to win it, because we could. I want to win everything I do. It's my mind-set. So do the players, that's what we're going to try and do. There are some really god teams in the World Cup, but World Cup's worth fighting for, those dreams of lifting World Cup. We're going to fight and give everything we've got.

Gareth Southgate

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When something goes wrong in your life, it doesn't finish you, and you should become braver, knowing that you've got to go for things in life and don't regret because you didn't try to be as good as you might be.

Gareth Southgate

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In life, there are really complex, difficult jobs, and some are more complicated and difficult than others. But when you look around at inventions, or records that have been broken, you have to tell yourself that anything is possible.

Gareth Southgate

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