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England have set plenty of positive records under Gareth Southgate but, against Hungary, the tables were turned on the Three Lions.
Southgate’s team – runners up at Euro 2020 last year – were hammered 4-0 in Wolverhampton in a shock result.
England have collected just two points from their four Nations League matches so far and sit bottom of Group A3.
While fatigue after a gruelling season has played its part in underwhelming displays, it is not the form that Southgate will be content with ahead of this year’s World Cup.
With the help of Opta data, Stats Perform has picked out some of the most prominent statistics from one of England’s most surprising defeats.
1928 – England have lost a home match by four goals for the first time since March 1928, when they went down 5-1 to rivals Scotland.
2 – Hungary, meanwhile, have become only the second team to beat Southgate’s England in consecutive matches, after Belgium did so at the 2018 World Cup.
4 – They are the only team to score four goals in an away match against England since the Hungarians themselves triumphed 6-3 at Wembley Stadium way back in 1953.
1964 – Not since 1964 had England lost by four or more goals. On that occasion, in May of that year, they were defeated 5-1 by Brazil in a friendly. On only one other occasion have the Three Lions lost by at least four goals without scoring, when they slumped to a 5-0 defeat to Yugoslavia in 1958, but that was away from home.
0 – England have failed to win any of their four games this month (D2 L2). Only June 2014, in the build-up to and during the Brazil World Cup, have England played more matches without winning (five).
3 – Roland Sallai is only the second player to have scored as many as three goals against England this century, along with Sweden’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic (five), and is the first Hungary player to score twice in an away game against England since both Ferenc Puskas (two) and Nandor Hidegkuti (three) did so in that 6-3 win at Wembley in 1953.
1 – Jarrod Bowen is the first player not to end up on the winning side in any of his first four England appearances (D2 L2) since Ledley King between 2002 and 2004 (also D2 L2).
