Roque Santa Cruz insisted there was no point dwelling on what may have been after Paraguay bowed out of the World Cup with a 1-0 quarter-final defeat to Spain.

Oscar Cardozo had a penalty saved by Iker Casillas in the second half as the South Americans went out after their best-ever performance at the finals.

"We don't talk about things that could or could not have happened," he said. "Of course in that case, we had a penalty that we missed. Besides that we kept doing the same job and I think we kept ourselves very much in the game until the second half where they had two or three chances."