Wednesday, 20th November, 2013
England manager Roy Hodgson feels that when he has time to reflect on his side's friendly defeat to Germany he will find positives to take from the game.
A goal from Per Mertesacker was enough to hand Germany a 1-0 win at Wembley and make it two defeats on the trot for Hodgson's men, after a 2-0 loss at home to Chile on Friday evening.
But the England manager has taken heart from the fact that both games were only friendlies and is determined to see the positive side.
"Sometimes you learn more from defeats", he told the BBC.
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"There will be lots of things that right now I am not happy about but they won't seem as black when I watch it back but we wanted to end the year on a positive result."
Nevertheless, Hodgson pulled no punches about the quality of England's display at Wembley, dubbing it simply not good enough to trouble the Germans.
"The passing in the final third was nowhere as good as Germany's and the same can be said about our attacking play", he said.
"There were good moments tonight; the attitude, the work rate the effort, the togetherness and the fact we never gave up were positives but the negatives were we lacked some quality today."
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