Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll has insisted that he should shoulder the blame for the final key play of the match in his side's Super Bowl XLIX defeat to the New England Patriots.

With 20 seconds left on the clock, the Seahawks were in the red zone and just a few metres from the goal line when quarterback Russell Wilson threw an interception.

Carroll admits it was he who made the call to pass the ball instead of run it, but he believes that his side should have won the match.

He told reporters: "I told those guys, 'That's my fault, totally'. But we had plenty of time to win the game, we were playing for third and fourth down, give them no time left, but didn't work out that way.

"For it to come down to a play like that, I hate that we have to live with that, because we did everything right to win the football game at the end. But they did a great job, they gave themselves a shot and then they pulled it off, and they're world champs, and we'€™re not."

The Seahawks won the Super Bowl last year.