Essendon forward Kyle Langford says he has no regrets about missing his chance for glory against Collingwood, and will gladly step up to be the man of the moment should the opportunity arise again.

Both clubs on Thursday night were wrapping their arms around heartbreak kids Langford and Jamie Elliott, who missed opportunities to win the game in the frantic final stages of one of the best Anzac Day clashes between the two sides.

Langford, who had already booted two goals in the final term, would have gone close to clinching the Anzac Day Medal had he converted for a fifth major to put his side up by five points with just over a minute left in the game.

But his shot from about 35 metres out with little angle to speak of sailed to the right, levelling the scores with 68 seconds left.

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Elliott, having earlier taken a contender for mark of the year, then grassed a sliding chest mark that would have given him a shot, likely after the siren, from about 50 metres out just inside the boundary line. Any score would have been enough to win the match.

As shattered as Langford was with his miss, he is taking solace from having not deviated from his well-drilled routine, and the dark humour of his teammates.

“They’re not blaming me at all, they were kind of joking, saying it could have been worse – you could have missed everything, and we would have lost.

“I’m pretty diligent on my training, visualisation, I’m practising at training, I wouldn’t change anything in my routine, my run-up, how I went about that. In the end, it was execution.