That's what coach Leo Beenhakker told Trinidad and Tobago's Soca Warriors yesterday morning when they returned to the training ground here in Rotenburg following their heart-breaking loss to England in their second Group B match at the 2006 World Cup Finals on Thursday in Nuremberg, Germany.
By Marlon MillerT&T, with one point from their opening clash with Sweden, are in a must-win situation against Paraguay in their final group match on Tuesday, but they also need England to beat the Swedes to have any chance of progressing to the second round.
But even if England do the Warriors a favour by getting the better of Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago manage to triumph over Paraguay, goal difference will come into play as the Swedes already have four points after getting a late victory over the Paraguayans on Thursday night in Berlin.
Second-placed Sweden have one goal for and none against, while the Soca Warriors have yet to score and conceded two late goals to the English.
The Trinidad and Tobago squad returned to their base in Rotenburg just after midnight yesterday and Beenhakker called a practice session for 10.30 a.m. (4.30 a.m. T&T time), after which he briefly spoke to the media on a chilly morning when most of the players had on their training suit jackets.
Although putting up a tremendous performance against England in holding them off for 83 minutes, before lanky striker Peter Crouch and inspirational midfielder Steven Gerrard got on the scoresheet, the T&T coach was asked to reflect on what must have been a crushing disappointment.
"I'm still very disappointed, because after a very short night of a few hours' sleeping, I still have the same feeling as my whole career I hate losing.
"And, of course, when you talk about it and you think about it, it's a reasonable result for us and a proud and fantastic story, but yeah, the end result is we lost.
"I hate it, I still hate it. After 42 years in the business, I still hate it. But I understand it if you come here, like they called us in the beginning in England, 'the Cinderella team', we have nothing to look for in this tournament, and you see how the team manages to match up versus two big European teams then, yeah, they can be proud of themselves."
Of the positive factors coming out of Thursday's encounter at the Franken-Stadion in Nuremberg, Beenhakker replied: "We knew from the beginning, of course, that's always the main thing from the 90 minutes, we were prepared that England had 70 minutes' ball possession. That is normal on the difference of the competition.
"I told them from the beginning, you always get two or three possibilities during a whole match and just use patience and use the 90 minutes to try to do something nice with it, and we had some opportunities and then you have to be a little bit lucky, of course."
That luck didn't come Trinidad and Tobago's way, with England central defender John Terry clearing a goal-bound effort by striker Stern John off the line in the first half.
And now skipper Dwight Yorke and his men have all to play for versus Paraguay in Kaiserslautern on Tuesday, when Sweden will be up against England in Cologne at the same time, 9 p.m. (3 p.m. T&T time).
"Yeah, that's the actual situation, that's what we were talking about this morning," said Beenhakker.
"After feeling a little bit of disappointment, of course, we said it's still not over so we know what we have to do. The first thing we have to do is beat Paraguay.
"We will do everything to do that, prepare ourselves from tomorrow (today) very well and go for it, and at the same moment we have, hopefully, a situation that England will do its duty and beat Sweden.
"So, we don't have it our own hands, but the things we have in our hands we will use and we will go for it," the coach concluded.
After yesterday morning's training session, which ended in an impromptu windball cricket knock-up among the T&T squad, the Dutchman gave his players 24 hours' off and they will return to practice this evening in Rotenburg, with beating Paraguay their main priority come Tuesday.
