Roy Hodgson Says He Didn’t Anticipate Defeat
Former English national football coach, Roy Hodgson, has said that he definitely did not anticipate a loss against Iceland on Monday.
The 68-year old resigned immediately following Monday night’s shocking 2 – 1 defeat at the hands of Iceland.
Speaking to media on Tuesday, Hodgson said that he did not see the defeat coming and that nothing leading up to the now infamous game would’ve prepared him for the shock defeat:
“…My emotions are obvious ones. I am really disappointed. I didn’t see the defeat coming…Nothing in the first three games here gave me any indication that we would play as poorly as we did,” he said.
When asked about his emotional state, Hodgson said that he feels rather ‘fragile’:
“…As you can understand, I’m very fragile today. It wasn’t a good night for anybody, because we wanted to stay in this tournament. We wanted to do well,” he said.
Hodgson said that him, along with the rest of the team, believed that they could’ve made it all the way to the finals, had they moved past the quarterfinals:
“…We even believed, if we’d have got to the quarter-final, we could even go beyond that. Now we go home as losers in the last 16 and we maintain that wretched record of not winning a knockout game in a tournament,” he said.
