Marcus Rashford sent a touching message to Kylian Mbappe despite England’s heart-breaking defeat by France in the World Cup quarter-finals.
The reigning world champions booked their place in the last-four with a slender 2-1 success at Al Bayt Stadium on Saturday evening. Aurelien Tchouameni and Olivier Giroud strikes, as well as a missed Harry Kane penalty, proved enough for Les Bleus to progress. The Three Lions squad was left down-trodden come the final whistle, with members of the squad taking to social media with their thoughts on the defeat and the tournament as a whole.
Manchester United forward Rashford - the scorer of three goals in Qatar - was among those. Taking to Instagram, he wrote: "The last few weeks have been a rollercoaster of emotions, each and every one of our team gave everything we had to be ready for what was thrown at us, we got close, but not close enough.