Gareth Southgate

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Well, really tough game.

You know, they are a top, top side and I think for Spells, you know, kept the ball incredibly well, pressed us and we didn't keep the ball in the early part of the game well enough.

But I've got to give the players enormous credit.

You know, it was a game that

We could have folded and disappeared.

We didn't.

We hung in there.

And in the last 25, 30 minutes, we really came into the game, kept the ball a lot better, created some good chances and could well have got a draw out of it.

So we're under no illusions that Spain were the better team for long periods of that.

But they are brilliant at what they do.

And we are early stages of what we're trying to do still.

No, I think they pressed extremely well.

It took us a while to work out where their press was coming from and the solutions to get through it.

We managed it a couple of times, but at the moment we're still finding our feet in playing out in those areas.

Now we have a choice.

We can either go back to an old style and not bother

but we'll never be a top team, or we keep trying to do what we do.

We'll suffer at times, but we have got some players that can do it and some that are improving at it.

For me, it's the way I believe we should play.