England vs Hungary LIVE: Nations League result, final score and reaction tonight
Follow all the action from Molineux as the Three Lions play their final game of the summer
This can no longer be written off as meaningless. The Nations League has instead produced England’s worst-ever home defeat to a side from outside the old “home nations”, and worst in all since 1928, as Hungary symbolically surpassed their own famous 6-3 of 1953.
We might well see a similar inquest. This obviously can’t be dismissed as just the Nations League any more. There felt more to it than fatigue or circumstances.
Gareth Southgate has real problems to solve, as his team lost momentum and - perhaps most relevantly - he lost the support of a significant section of a home crowd. It is the first show of the sort of negativity that used to sour so many campaigns and managerial reigns of the past, and this went really toxic.
Southgate and his players were repeatedly booed, with that reaching a crescendo as Harry Maguire was brought on to shore up a defence that had lost John Stones to a red card.
It was that kind of night, where it was hard to settle on what the low point was. It just kept getting worse. Follow all the reaction as England lose to Hungary below:
England 0-1 Hungary
45 mins: Two minutes of added time to play in the first half. England need to get in and have a reset. Will Gareth Southgate look to change things in the second 45 minutes?
England 0-1 Hungary
42 mins: Jarrod Bowen whips a free kick in from the right wing and England are rewarded with corner. James once again delivers it into the box and after the initial ball loops back into the air Dibusz comes off his line and claims it for Hungary.
England 0-1 Hungary
39 mins: Tricky from Bellingham who weaves around Attila Fiola on his way into the left side of the box. He dinks the ball towards the six-yard area and wins England a corner.
Reece James delivers it and comes close to picking out John Stones again. Attila Szalai wins it in the air and his header down, hits a white shirt before bouncing out of play.
England 0-1 Hungary
36 mins: Save! England are almost gifted a goal as Willi Orban looks to clear a cross from the left wing. He throws himself at the ball but only succeeds in heading back towards his own goal where Denes Dibusz has to palm it away!
England 0-1 Hungary
33 mins: Hungary have a couple of good forwards on the pitch in Roland Sallai and Adam Szalai. England are finding it tricky to take the ball off either of them when they dribble it into the box. Szalai has a shy from range but can’t sneak his effort past Aaron Ramsdale.
England 0-1 Hungary
30 mins: The free kick is fizzed into the six-yard box where Reece James heads it clear off the line! England get the ball out of the box and play Bowen free on the counter-attack. He bombs down the inside right channel and brings the ball into the box before having a cross deflected out for a corner.
England’s corner is curled perfectly onto the head of John Stones who powers one into the turf and bounces the ball safely into the hands of Dibusz.
England 0-1 Hungary
27 mins: Adam Szalai shimmies away from Phillips and the Bellingham on the left wing before whipping a cross into the hands of Aaron Ramsdale.
Bellingham tries to block the cross with a sliding tackle and clips Szalai’s trailing leg giving Hungary a free kick in another dangerous area.
England 0-1 Hungary
24 mins: Kyle Walker attempts to pick out Jarrod Bowen’s run in behind but Nagy is aware of the danger and beats the England forward in the air to clear his lines.
England need to move the ball quicker, everything is too sedate at the minute and Hungary are pressing the midfield players quickly when the ball comes to them.
England 0-1 Hungary
21 mins: Jarrod Bowen flies inside from the right and lays the ball off to Jude Bellingham. He passes it over to Reece James. James cuts back onto his right foot and floats the ball into the penalty area but sends it straight into the waiting hands of Denes Dibusz.
England 0-1 Hungary
19 mins: After dominating possession in the opening stages, England find themselves behind with barely 20 minutes on the board.
In the other Nations League A3 game this evening Joshua Kimmich has given Germany a 1-0 lead over Italy too.
As it stands England are rock bottom of their group. They need a turnaround here.
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