McClaren: We share blame for goal

Steve McClaren has insisted England's defence must take collective responsibility for the horror goal which helped Germany on their way to a 2-1 friendly win at Wembley.

Goalkeeper Paul Robinson appeared most at fault as he palmed Bernd Schneider's cross straight into the path of Kevin Kuranyi, presenting the Germany forward with the easiest of tasks to level Frank Lampard's ninth-minute opener before Christian Pander's spectacular winner.

But McClaren said: "It may have been a mistake but there were two or three mistakes before that which we should not have allowed."

He added: "But this is not a night to publicly state anything at all about the team in the future.

"What you have to do with any performance is reflect on them and make decisions later on."

"It was a tough, hard game for us, which was ideal.

"I was delighted with the majority of it. We created plenty of chances and on another night, we might have tucked them away."