England missing final piece of jigsaw - Kane

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England captain Harry Kane says the team are "missing that final piece of the jigsaw" and need to "find a way to get better" following defeat to Argentina.

It is not the archetypal clip England person been accused of becoming excessively antiaircraft successful cardinal games.

It was a akin concern nether erstwhile manager Gareth Southgate erstwhile they went 1-0 successful beforehand against Italy successful the Euro 2021 last earlier conceding an equaliser and losing connected penalties.

Under Southgate, England besides mislaid a World Cup semi-final to Croatia successful 2018 and were beaten by Spain successful the Euro 2024 final.

Opta stats amusement that, since 1998, England person been eliminated each clip they person faced a top-10 ranked federation successful the knockout stages of the World Cup.

"Going for glory doesn't ever mean you volition get it," added Bayern Munich guardant Kane, who has scored six goals during the tournament.

"You person to combat for it, get knocked down, prime yourself up and spell again and that's what we volition do, there's nary different mode but to support believing and keeping pushing."

England started their World Cup run with a 4-2 triumph against Croatia aft the crippled was tied astatine 2-2 astatine the break.

Following the game, Kane said the team's improved second-half show came aft Tuchel had told them "if we lose, we suffer successful our way" successful his half-time squad talk.

England drew 0-0 with Ghana and bushed Panama 2-0 to decorativeness apical of their radical earlier coming from a extremity down to bushed DR Congo 2-1 successful the past 32.

They went down to 10 men against Mexico but earned a hard-fought 3-2 triumph against the co-hosts earlier beating Norway 2-1 aft extra-time anterior to the crippled against Argentina.

The Three Lions present look a third-place play-off lucifer against France, who were beaten by Spain successful the different semi-final, connected Saturday (22:00 BST).

England attacking midfielder Jude Bellingham, similar Kane, scored six goals arsenic helium starred during the tournament.

He said helium "was truly struggling to find the close words" pursuing England's exit but shared a four-page poem titled 'The Lions Way', written by the team's operator Michael Chandler, which "pretty overmuch hits the nail connected the head".

The poem finished with the enactment " a psyche made strong, a psyche assured" arsenic Bellingham besides called for "unity", external pursuing England's defeat.

"Don't fto the unity and emotion we've seen successful our state extremity with this campaign. When we're unneurotic we tin execute large things," the Real Madrid subordinate said.

Aston Villa midfielder Morgan Rogers acceptable up Gordon for England's opener against Argentina and said helium was "devastated" pursuing the defeat.

"We gave truthful overmuch to scope this acold and for it to extremity the mode it did hurts," he said., external

"We shared memories that volition past for a beingness and I lived a puerility imagination to correspond my state astatine a World Cup. We volition beryllium back, people my words."

Gordon, who has moved from Newcastle United to Barcelona, added: "I genuinely thought this was our clip to triumph aft waiting truthful galore years but it wasn't to beryllium and it's going to wounded for a while.

"I've ne'er wanted to triumph truthful badly, not conscionable for the trophy but for everything we built arsenic a radical and what it would person meant for England."