Saka, Rashford and Sancho racially abused after Euro penalty misses

Saka, Rashford and Sancho took the last three penalties — which were all saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma — during England's 3-2 loss on spot kicks on Sunday night.

They have since been targeted with racist language and emojis on their social media accounts.

The trio have had a number of comments on their past Instagram posts after their penalty misses.

England manager Gareth Southgate consoles Bukayo Saka after the penalty shoot out

They have been targeted with monkey emojis and other racially abusive comments since the end of the game.

Boris Johnson said the team deserve to be hailed as “heroes” following the Three Lions’ loss to Italy and not subjected to hatred online, adding that those who sent abuse should be “ashamed of themselves”.

The Prime Minister tweeted: “This England team deserve to be lauded as heroes, not racially abused on social media. Those responsible for this appalling abuse should be ashamed of themselves.”

And an FA spokesman said: “The FA strongly condemns all forms of discrimination and is appalled by the online racism that has been aimed at some of our England players on social media.

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“We could not be clearer that anyone behind such disgusting behaviour is not welcome in following the team. We will do all we can to support the players affected while urging the toughest punishments possible for anyone responsible.

“We will continue to do everything we can to stamp discrimination out of the game, but we implore Government to act quickly and bring in the appropriate legislation so this abuse has real life consequences.

“Social media companies need to step up and take accountability and action to ban abusers from their platforms, gather evidence that can lead to prosecution and support making their platforms free from this type of abhorrent abuse.”

The Met also condemned the “unacceptable” abuse, adding that they will be investigating the “offensive and racist” social media posts.

Gareth Southgate shoulders blame for shoot-out defeat

Gareth Southgate took full responsibility for England’s failure from the spot as Italy secured Euro 2020 glory at Wembley.

After a 1-1 draw after 120 minutes – Leonardo Bonucci cancelled out Luke Shaw’s second-minute opener – it was a familiar spot-kick outcome for the Three Lions.

Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka all missed from the spot, with Jordan Pickford saving two Italian penalties.

“We prepared as well as we could for that and that’s my responsibility, I chose the guys to take the kicks,” Southgate told ITV.

England manager Gareth Southgate stands dejected alongside Bukayo Saka and Jack Grealish following the UEFA Euro 2020 Final

“No-one is on their own in that situation. We decided to make the changes right at the end of the game and we win and lose together as team.”

On selecting Saka to take the fifth penalty and also making very late substitutions to get more takers on Southgate added to ITV: “That’s my decision to give him that penalty so it is totally my responsibility: it is not him, Marcus or Jadon.

“We worked on it in training and that’s the order we came to. My call as coach.

“It is always the risk you run but they have been by far the best and to get all those attacking players on you have to do it late.

“It was a gamble but if we gambled earlier we may have lost the game in extra-time any way.”

Captain Harry Kane was proud of the effort of the team.

He told the BBC: “The boys couldn’t have given more. Penalties are obviously are the worst thing in the world when you lose. It wasn’t our night but it’s been a fantastic tournament and we should be proud, hold our heads up high.

England's Bukayo Saka has his shot saved in the penalty shoot-out during the UEFA Euro 2020 Final at Wembley Stadium

“Of course it’s going to hurt for a while but we are on the right track and hopefully we can progress from this next year.”

Kane offered words of encouragement for the three players who missed penalties in the shoot-out.

He told the BBC: “You have got to hold your heads up high. It’s been a fantastic tournament.

“Anyone can miss a penalty. We win together, we lose together. We will learn and these boys will grow from it.

“It will give us more motivation to do well in the World Cup next year.

“We should be extremely proud of what we have achieved. It will probably hurt for the rest of our careers but that is football.

Italy celebrates after winning the UEFA Euro 2020 Final at Wembley Stadium, London

“We have progressed well from Russia. Now it is about continuing. We have a great squad with loads of good young players.”

Southgate said none of the players could be blamed for the defeat.

“They cannot have any recriminations,” he told the BBC. “They have gone further than we have gone for so long but tonight it is incredibly painful in that dressing room.”

He added the squad had worked hard to prepare for penalties.

He said: “We were well prepared and we started it well. Unfortunately the guys weren’t able to convert it but the guys cannot look at themselves in terms of how they practised because they could not have done it any more or any better.”