Steven Gerrard refused to use the excuse of England's wrongly disallowed goal as the main reason behind their World Cup exit at the hands of Germany on Sunday afternoon.
The Three Lions suffered their worst ever defeat in a World Cup as Joachim Loew's side progressed to the quarter-finals after a 4-1 win.
However, at 2-1 down the major talking point was Frank Lampard's disallowed effort, which television replays showed clearly crossed the line.
While the skipper admitted the decision was hard to take, he acknowledged that Fabio Capello's side was not good enough on the day.
"There were big key decisions in the game, at 2-1 we had a goal disallowed," said Gerrard.
"At 2-1 we were hurting them and we were still in the game.
"I think it (the disallowed goal) had an effect but we cannot use that as an excuse with being beaten 4-1.
"That would have been a big goal for us. It's all ifs and buts. Germany are a fantastic team and they deserved their win.
"You go away and you have a think about what went wrong and why we didn't progress further in the tournament.
"As a team we've made a big mistake today and we've been beaten by a good team.
"They were more clinical in front of goal and they made fewer mistakes than us and we got punished for that today."
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