England wanted to demonstrate the nation’s ‘passion and desire to carry on’ after London attack, says Gareth Southgate

England manager Gareth Southgate was keen for his players to show the nation's "desire to carry on" as they faced Germany hours after the London terrorist attack in Westminster.

Four people were killed, including police officer Keith Palmer, and around 40 injured in the capital's bloodiest terror attack since 7/7.

The national football team played Germany in an international friendly later in the day, losing 1-0 despite dominating for much of the contest, and Southgate was proud of his players' performances.

Southgate said: "There was some discussion around whether we should do something tonight, but we felt it more appropriate to do that when we get back to London at it’s our home game.

"But I think, in my mind was that the identity, or one of the key characteristics of us as a nation, is that we carry on moments like that.

"We don’t allow people to put us off what we want to do on a day-to-day basis and go about our working lives and London, in particular, has suffered that before so we wanted to put on a performance that had the passion and the desire that reflected that.

"We haven’t got the win that we would have liked but I think people can see the commitment of the players and the way that they played.