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Tuesday, 04 July 2006 |
Liverpool striker Peter Crouch blames England's failure on exhaustion  Liverpool striker Peter Crouch blames exhaustion for the terrible performance that lost England's chances in the World Cup.
Peter Crouch said Wayne Rooney's dismissal left the other players too tired for the spot-kicks, which they lost 3-1.
"I honestly felt exhaustion set in at the end against Portugal," said Peter Crouch, who was not one of the penalty-takers.
"We had played quite a lot of the game with 10 men and I think we took the penalties in a tired way," Peter Crouch added.
England missed three of the four penalties after Saturday's quarterfinal had finished scoreless and they had played for an hour with 10 men after Wayne Rooney's red card for stamping on Portugal's Ricardo Carvalho.
"Everyone worked so hard and I genuinely feel everyone had given everything by the time we had to take the penalties. That definitely showed in the penalties we had to take," added Peter Crouch.
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