England person present mislaid successful the semi-finals successful 2 of the past 3 men's World Cups, and were beaten successful the European Championship finals successful 2021 and 2024.
"There's not overmuch to accidental - everyone is gutted," said England skipper Harry Kane.
"When you're truthful close, 10 minutes away, and it slips retired of your hands similar that, evidently the lads are devastated.
"We did truthful good for 60 minutes. We scored and deserved to beryllium up past we struggled to support the ball, struggled to enactment unit connected the shot and it allowed them to make much momentum and chances successful the last third.
"We're going to person to find retired however we tin amended successful those situations. It's been astir apt the missing portion present for astir apt the past 4 oregon 5 tournaments."
Bayern Munich striker Kane has scored six goals astatine this World Cup and could inactive triumph the Golden Boot - though some Lionel Messi, who acceptable up some Argentina goals, and France's Kylian Mbappe are connected eight.
Kane, who turns 33 aboriginal this month, refused to beryllium drawn connected whether helium would inactive beryllium playing by the clip of the 2030 World Cup.
"It's excessively aboriginal to speech astir that - for maine it's astir taking it twelvemonth by year," said Kane.
"The nationalist squad is my pridefulness and joy, it's what I emotion to bash most.
"Four years is simply a agelong mode distant and I'm 33 successful the summer, but arsenic you spot with Leo [Messi], he's inactive performing astatine the highest level [at 39]. For present it's astir processing different pugnacious loss."
Like Kane, Jude Bellingham has besides scored six goals for England astatine this tournament.
"The lads did everything they could implicit the people of the tourney - I can't responsibility the effort and the fight," said the Real Madrid midfielder.
"That's the beingness of a footballer astatine this level. The much beauteous the journey, the much heartbreaking the extremity is. I'm truly arrogant of each my team-mates - they enactment successful a magnificent displacement implicit the past fewer weeks.
"I wanted to beryllium portion of an England squad that yet did it and yet got it implicit the line. To beryllium present telling the fans the aforesaid things they person heard for years and years, it's truly gutting."
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