Capello points to disallowed goal

Lampard effort not given

Coach Fabio Capello said the referee's decision to rule out England's second 'goal' was the turning point during the 4-1 defeat by Germany at the World Cup.

With Germany 2-1 ahead, Frank Lampard's first-half strike hit the bar then landed about a foot over the line, but it was disallowed.

"It was the most important moment of the game," said the England boss, after his team exited at the last-16 stage.

"Where is the technology? Instead we are talking about goal or no goal."

Both Uruguayan referee Jorge Larrionda and his assistant Mauricio Espinosa appeared to have a good view of where the ball had landed but deemed that the ball had not crossed the goalline.

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Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski had given Germany a 2-0 advantage before a header from Matthew Upson reduced the deficit in the 37th minute.

Lampard's strike came a minute later, and following the decision England's day went from bad to worse.

In the second half, two strikes from 20-year-old midfielder Thomas Mueller effectively ensured that England would bow of the tournament at last-16 stage for the first time since 1998.

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"We played I think well at 2-1, but after the third goal it was a little bit disappointing," added Capello.

"We played well. Germany is a big team. They played a good game. We made some mistakes when they played on the counter-attack. The referee made bigger mistakes.

"Little things decide the result always."

England captain Steve Gerrard also cited the disallowed goal as a pivotal moment of match but said his team were also guilty of errors.

"I think it's difficult, we are suffering," the Liverpool player told BBC Radio 5 live.

"It looks like we took a hiding today but that wasn't the case. As a team we weren't defensively solid enough.

"There were key decisions in the game. At 2-1 we had a goal disallowed.

"At this level the small details dictate games and that would have been a key goal for us and maybe we would have gone on and won it.

"During the summer you go away and have a think about why we went wrong. Confidence was high, we were training well but couldn't do it for 90 minutes."

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