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Steven Gerrard believes that the England national team deserved to lose two points in the World Cup qualification tournament in Podgorica. On Tuesday, the English team played 1-1 with the Montenegrin team. Now, Roy Hodgson's players are two points behind the Montenegrins, who are at the top of the table and in line for automatic qualification to the championship in Brazil, writes soccernet.com.
The England national team took the lead away shortly after the sixth minute with a goal from Wayne Rooney, until the 76th minute when Dejan Damjanovic beat Joe Hart.
"After the break, we stopped playing for 20-30 minutes. You simply can't do that away from home. We stopped making passes, and then we lost control. I think our opponents deserved to equalize the result," said S. Gerrard.
"In the first half, we demonstrated our experience - we controlled the game. But when you lead 1-0, you are vulnerable, so you have to keep fighting and aim for the second goal, but we didn't do that. The opponents took control and deserved the draw," said the 32-year-old Liverpool player.
After the match, England national team coach R. Hodgson did not panic and said he feels confident about the ticket to Brazil.
"We believe that we will be first in the group. Now we have to win all the matches and improve our game in the second half. We need to play like we did in the first half. We need to bring home three points from Ukraine. We will aim for the same at home," said R. Hodgson.
