Steven Gerrard has launched a verbal attack on Cristiano Ronaldo for rushing up to the referee to make sure Wayne Rooney was sent off.
Ronaldo and Rooney are team-mates at Manchester United but there was no friendship on show in Gelsenkirchen.
The Portugal winger sprinted towards referee Horatio Elizondo shouting: "Did you see that?" after Rooney had raked his studs into Ricardo Carvalho.
Gerrard said: "I saw that, and if it was one of my team-mates I'd be absolutely disgusted in him because there's no need for that.
"I've seen Ronaldo going over giving the card and I think he's bang out of order."
Rooney turned and pushed Ronaldo away and Argentinian referee Elizondo instantly produced the red card.
Ronaldo, who eventually scored the winning penalty, turned and winked at his team-mates.
Gerrard said: "I think that sums him up as a person.
"If I was playing against my team-mates from Liverpool and they were involved in a situation like that, I'd never try and get them sent off."
Gerrard thought England should have been awarded a free-kick for a foul on Rooney before the flashpoint.
The Liverpool skipper said: "He had four or five Portuguese men all over him and I walked away thinking we were going to get a free-kick.
"Wayne Rooney won't get any blame from me because I love him and he's done so much for this team. He's going to do so much in the future."
Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Jamie Carragher all missed penalties in the shoot-out.
Owen Hargreaves was the only England player to score as Portugal won 3-1.
Gerrard said: "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.
"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."
England played for more than an hour with 10 men and Gerrard admitted he was exhausted by the time he stepped up to take a penalty.
Gerrard said: "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."
Sven-Goran Eriksson congratulated his players in the dressing room after his last game in charge of the team.
Eriksson said: "You could tell by his face he was absolutely gutted he couldn't take us that one step further.
"The lads are all gutted we couldn't do it for the fans. The fans have been absolutely brilliant since day one."
