Striker Harry Kane has admitted that England's semi-finals defeat to Croatia will "hurt for a while".

England were eliminated from the tournament in Russia with just one match away from the final in Moscow.

Goals from Ivan perisic and Mario Mandzukic turned the game after Kieran Trippier put England ahead.

And England captain Kane, who missed a glorious chance to make it 2-0 in the first half, revealed the pain at England’s heartbreak.

“It’s tough. We’re gutted, you know. We worked so hard. The fans were amazing,” Kane said.

“It was a tough game, a 50-50 game. I’m sure there was stuff we could have done better, but we worked as hard as we could.

“It hurts, it’ll hurt for a while, but we can hold our heads up high. It was a fantastic journey, we got further than anyone thought we could, we’ve just got to learn from it.

“We created some good chances, being 1-0 up. Maybe we dropped too deep at times. In big games, it’s small margins.

“There’s a lot we could have done better, but they played well. It’s been great to get to this stage, but we wanted to go on and win it.

“But we’ve fallen a bit short. It just hurts. It shows we can win knockout games; the next stage is to go one further.

“We’ve got to dust ourselves down and go again in a couple of years.”

Source: >>SPORTDAB
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