Bilic: England over confident

Slaven Bilic has said that England came into the game with Croatia "too over-confident" and insisted that there were no scapegoats as England lamented their loss. Bilic firmly admits that his side deserved to win.

"There is nothing wrong with England football," he said. "This is by far the most difficult group. There were three teams who deserved to go through to the European Championship.

"You were just unlucky to get this group. I have watched all the teams and this is difficult.

"I read in the papers that no Croatian player would start in your team. That's ridiculous. Wake up.

"I love your players. They are jumbo jets of football but we are players in a small country who can play good football. We have players with great skill and good lungs.

"It was a great night and we fully deserved to win. Maybe a lack of concentration stopped us scoring more goals.

"We showed great character. It is hard to win here, especially to come back when they equalised. That's why we totally deserved it.

"Well done to England, they were part of an excellent football match.

"There are no scapegoats. We were the better team tonight and that's it. It happened with (Paul) Robinson in Zagreb - okay you can blame him for the second goal but he was by far the best Englishman on the pitch and so Carson was tonight."