West Ham United defender Matthew Upson admits he has no answers for England's failure last night.

Some answers for England's woeful showing need to be found. But Upson admits he has none.

"I would love to explain," said Upson. "It is very difficult to analyse all these games and give a reason why X, Y and Z happened. I don't know. I can't explain the performances.

"But I don't think they have all been as bad as what we are talking about."

The defeat raised so many issues, as well as continuing a barren record against bigger countries in tournament football since 2000, when they beat Germany during an otherwise disastrous European Championships.

"I don't have the answer to why we never do it against the big countries," continued Upson. "You have 11 players giving it 100 per cent. At the end of the day we weren't good enough to get the result. It is as simple as that.

"Where England go from here is a good question. It is something the manager will be thinking a lot. He will be analysing everything we have done in the tournament and I am sure he will learn a lot for the future."