England were dissatisfied with the stalemate in Saint-Etienne, even though it still gave them a place in the last 16 at Euro 2016, albeit behind neighbours and Group B winners Wales.
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The midfielder opened the scoring for Wales, with Neil Taylor and Gareth Bale scoring in the 3-0 win over Russian Federation.
Hodgson knows this. “Now we have not only to pass the ball reasonably well and control the game, but score goals as well”, he says.
“We expected a lot of pressure from England, because they are a top team and as time went on, our team started to show signs they were exhausted”.
“You’re saying that had Wayne started, he would have scored the goals the others missed from his left half (midfield) position”, Hodgson told reporters. “We are disappointed, with the amount of possession we had we should have won the game”.
Coleman’s side will now head to Paris on Saturday to take on one of the teams who have finished third, which could possibly be Northern Ireland.
As runners-up, England will face the second-placed team from Group F – which could be Portugal, Austria, Hungary or Iceland – on Tuesday morning in Nice.
“As a nation geographically we’re small, but I think if you’re judging us on passion then we could be described as a continent tonight, because that was incredible”, said Wales manager Coleman. That is Ramsey’s second assist of the tournament and completed a dream group phase for the Welsh in their first worldwide competition for donkey’s years. I’m very proud of the players. “It kept up our domination but I am not certain it would have made a vast difference because we would still playing against 11 players in defence”.
Hodgson also faced questions for the first time about a possible penalty shoot-out in the knockout stages, and he said: “They get taken every day [in training], so we’ll wait and see”.
“I said there was more to come from this group of players, they are on the way to something else, I am just glad we are on it with them”.
“It’s probably the best performance I’ve been involved in with Wales”. That was something we really wanted to improve on [against Russia].
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“To top the group, it is a dream for all of us, we said we didn’t want to just make up the numbers and we can’t do more than we have”. Having already earned all 3 points against Russia, Slovakia needed a draw to get their tally to 4 points, which in all probability will see them through to the next round.
