Jude Bellingham shares thoughts after ‘cruel’ Euro 2024 defeat

Jude Bellingham shares thoughts after 'cruel' Euro 2024 defeatSource: pa media

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00:00Yeah, really difficult. I think we sacrificed a lot throughout the last weeks. It's so tough

00:07these days with the crazy schedules and then coming together for the end of the season

00:12for one last tournament. It's difficult on the body. Mentally, physically you're exhausted

00:16but for our country we're wanting to give everything and then to lose in that way is

00:21really cruel. Again, we probably didn't play our best game but there were definitely some

00:26good moments and we felt like we got back into the game and then to be sucker punched

00:30with the late goal, it's heartbreaking. We all wanted nothing more than to make history

00:36and to make the people of England proud and we haven't managed to do. We didn't quite deliver.

00:42There's reasons for that and I'm sure as a team and going forward we'll analyse it. I

00:48think it's a young group still. It's really disappointing because at some point we do

00:53have to deliver but there are experiences and there are things we can take from this

00:58tournament going forward. I suppose if you look at everything negatively, nothing will

01:01ever change. So it's important we pick the positives and the negatives together and find

01:07a way to one day get England over the line.

01:10It was a really special goal and you had a key part to play in it. The momentum that

01:14that gave you for the next five, ten minutes, England were outstanding. Did you think you

01:18were going to go on and win it from that point, having come back again in a fourth consecutive

01:22knockout game?

01:23Yes, I still felt we were in the game, even when they scored to make it 2-1. The thing

01:29is about this team and we showed it throughout the tournament is we're never going to quit.

01:32We're not going to go out quitting and not wanting to take risks towards the end of the

01:37game. I think we had a couple of headers blocked off the line at the end there. It's really

01:45tough but you've got to find a way to get through it.