England boss Roy Hodgson has said that his team will 'accept the disappointment' of conceding a late equaliser in Saturday night's 1-1 draw with Russia at Euro 2016.
It did appear that Eric Dier's 73rd-minute free kick would secure three valuable points for the Three Lions in Group B, but Russian centre-back Vasili Berezutski levelled the scores with a looping header in the 92nd minute.
Hodgson refused to criticise his players when questioned on game management after the match and has insisted that he was pleased with his team's overall performance in Marseille.
"I think that when you dominate the game as much as we did and play as well as we did, when you concede a goal two minutes into injury time, of course it feels like a defeat rather than a draw. That is always the case with last-minute goals," Hodgson told ITV Sport.
"There were a lot of good things in our performance tonight. It was unfortunately a very, very good goal to equalise and we will have to accept that disappointment, digest it and move on. Our first-half performance was really good. The first 10 minutes of the second half we were getting pegged back, but we came to terms with that and looked totally in control once again.
"I was satisfied with the performance. I think that we deserved to win. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but we can take encouragement and I am hopeful that the mis-fortune of tonight will not happen again."
After the match, violence erupted inside the stadium when Russia fans attacked English supporters in the stands.
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