England player ratings on Gareth Southgate’s worst night as their manager

A worst home defeat in 94 years for England is a collective failure than can’t be pinned on one player, but here’s their indvidual rankings, regardless.

Aaron Ramsdale
Beaten with the first shot, and that’s not a strong look, even if whether he had much chance of saving it is debatable. There’s a case for saying that Ramsdale shouldn’t have got beaten at his near post by Roland Salloi’s 16th-minute opener, but it was from fairly close range, and it was hardly as though the defenders in front of him hadn’t had plenty of opportunity to get it away themselves first.

But things deteriorated from there. There was little he could do for the second, third or fourth goals, but it doesn’t look much as though he’ll be replacing Jordan Pickford as England’s first-choice goalkeeper in the immediate future on the basis of this performance. There were bigger problems in this England team than Aaron Ramsdale, but he did concede four goals as part of England’s worst home defeat since losing 5-1 at home to Scotland in 1928, five months before a World Cup finals. The best we can say for his evening is that he’s young enough to know that there will be other chances in the future.

Kyle Walker
Normally the most dependable England defender, Kyle Walker can still bring an element of calm into a game by getting his foot on the ball, but when Hungary did break on this occasion, they caught him out more than once. Solloi was behind him and he couldn’t get across in time to block the second goal, while the third and fourth goals both saw successive mistakes and a team that didn’t seem to know, positionally speaking, which day of the week it was.

Reece James
Instigator of England’s first decent chance, with some fluid interplay on the left which resulted in a cross to the far post for Jarrod Bowen which was blocked, and headed a Hungary cross away at the far post under pressure from an attacker. James switched sides at half-time and did manage to get a couple of half-decent crosses in from the other side of the pitch, but his delivery in the second half couldn’t find anybody to get on the end of the ball and, just like everyone else, he faded away to a husk over the last 20 minutes.

Kalvin Phillips
The margins are so narrow, but when Kalvin Phillips’ slightly delayed reaction was called out as being responsible for the first Hungary goal by the Channel Four commentary team, this felt a tiny bit harsh. None of this is to say that…