Gareth Bale declared himself “proud” of his Wales team-mates despite the huge disappointment of Daniel Sturridge’s stoppage-time goal giving England a 2-1 victory on Thursday.
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England continue their Euro 2016 tournament with a final group game against Slovakia, who Wales have already beaten, on Monday.
“England did it. They conceded in the last minute against Russian Federation and showed good courage to get back in the second game – and we have to do the same”.
Chris Coleman must now get his side refocused for their final group game against Russian Federation, with a place in the knockout stages very much in their own hands.
‘You know any ball over the top he is going to get on to it.
“First half we did okay, but have to move the ball quicker”, Rooney told BBC Sport. The big difference then was that Wales ran out 2-1 winners, which means the team has three points and still in position to get out of the group.
Wales skipper Ashley Williams said: “We thought we were playing well, so the message at half-time was carry on doing what you are doing and hopefully the goals will come, and they have”.
“(They) give us something different when we need a goal and need to ask questions of a packed defence”, the coach said.
Credited for his double change, Hodgson continued: “Substitutions are going to play a major part in this tournament”.
Uefa said they regretted the violence but stopped short of action to punish the fans or teams.
“It would be foolish in the warm glow of having won a game so late on…to start trying to make too many statements about what my plans are against Slovakia”, he added.
“Watching France play Albania, I think it was a similar situation when (Paul) Pogba and (Antoine) Griezmann came on to the field”.
“To lose it in the dying seconds – I can’t say I’ve felt that disappointed too many times in my career as I did when that goal went in”, Coleman said.
“It’s great that we have someone like Jamie Vardy to step into his shoes”.
“We thought a lot about what our starting 11 should be”.
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McFarland says England started well against Wales and the game could have been more comfortable for them had Sterling taken a first-half chance. Wales is a point back, above Slovakia on head-to-head record, and needs to beat Russian Federation to guarantee one of the two automatic qualifying berths.
