Missed pen giving Gerrard sleepless nights

Last updated : 03 July 2006 By Al Campbell
Gerrard missed a penalty in England's shoot out defeat to Portugal on Saturday and admits he can't get the miss out of his head at the moment.

"I just can't get the penalty out of my head. I feel numb at the minute. I was man enough to step up and take it but, the way I hit a ball, I should score a penalty," said the Liverpool skipper.

"It never went exactly where I wanted it to go. I've taken maybe 20 or 30 penalties and I've probably scored 95% of them. I tried to do what I did for Liverpool in the FA Cup final but my strike wasn't good enough.

"It was the hardest game I've ever played in when we went down to 10. None of the lads had anything left out there. We did well getting it to penalties and I just thought it was going to be our time. I'm just absolutely sick I haven't scored my penalty."