Kuhn: Players can be proud

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The tournament co-hosts' dreams of progressing to the last eight were crushed after a 2-1 defeat to Turkey on Wednesday night which followed their opening 1-0 slip to the Czech Republic.

"We are hugely disappointed but I cannot criticise anyone, neither the players nor anyone else," said Kuhn. "We have lost two matches in an unfortunate way."

Arda Turan's stoppage-time goal handed Turkey the victory in their second Group A game, after Semih Senturk had cancelled out Switzerland striker Hakan Yakin's opener.

The result sent Portugal, Switzerland's final opponents in the group stage, into the quarter finals.

"It's painful," said Kuhn. "I thought about trying to keep the 1-1 result and replace players tactically but we didn't have much time to make up our own minds.

"The fact is that we wanted to win because even with a point the probability of going through to the next round would have been highly unlikely as we face Portugal in our last group game.

"But I don't regret any decisions I have made. I don't think I can criticise myself for anything.

"I just wanted to win the match."