England’s Nations League campaign went from bad to worse with a 4-0 defeat at home to Hungary at the Molineux Stadium on Tuesday, 14 June 2022, the heaviest defeat that the men’s team has suffered at home in 94 years.
The dismal nature of the scoreline, coupled with a period of seven hours since England last scored a goal from open play has raised questions about Gareth Southgate’s future as England manager.
The likes of Eddie Howe, Graham Potter and Mauricio Pochettino are being discussed to replace Southgate, but after taking England to a Euros final just last year, is this recent torrid defeat enough to warrant Southgate’s exit?
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With this in mind, Betting.com reveals some of the heaviest and most significant defeats in Three Lions’ history, and the impact that they had on the team at the time.
England 0-4 Hungary (2022)
The shock defeat on Tuesday night was the biggest defeat the Three Lions have suffered under Southgate’s priorly successful leadership.
Having slipped to an unlucky 1-0 loss against the same Hungarian team just a week prior, fans had expected Southgate’s squad to bite back in this fixture – adding salt to the wound.
Two goals from Roland Sallai, plus finishes from Zsolt Nagy and Daniel Gadzag, as well as a red card for John Stones, piled on the misery for this current England team – who are facing Nations League relegation square in the face.
Germany 4-1 England (2010)
Fabio Capello’s time in charge of the England team finally capitulated after a brutal World Cup defeat at the hands of one of the Three Lions’ biggest rivals.
The writing was on the wall after a goal from Frank Lampard was harshly disallowed. Then a brace from Thomas Muller, plus goals from Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski meant that the England team were heading home from another World Cup earlier than planned.
Brazil 5-1 England (1964)
If English fans are looking for some reassurance ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in just five months’ time, England’s last and only World Cup win was achieved just two years after a heavy defeat in Rio de Janeiro.
However, with this Brazil side containing legends of the game like Pele and Carlos Alberto, this defeat may have been a slightly easier pill to swallow than England’s most recent upset.
Yugoslavia 5-0 England (1958)
The 1950s were a time that most England fans old enough to remember them would prefer to forget. This period in England’s history was littered with humiliating defeats.
One of the worst was a 5-0 thrashing away to Yugoslavia. An England side containing the legendary Bobby Charlton amongst others was truly put to the sword in a game that saw Aleksandar Petakovic score a second-half hattrick.
Hungary 7-1 England (1954)
Given recent events, there’s a twisted irony in England’s worst-ever defeat being inflicted at the hands of Hungary. What’s more, the English side had lost 6-3 to the same Hungary side one year prior at Wembley.
However, the Hungary side of 1953-54 was ranked number one in the world and featured iconic stars of the game such as Ferenc Puskas.
England 1-5 Scotland (1928)
The last time that England were defeated at home quite as heavily as on Tuesday night came nearly a whole country ago, against the nation’s noisy neighbours, Scotland.
An 80,000-strong crowd at Wembley witnessed Scottish striker Alex Jackson score a hattrick against an abysmal home side that day.
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Ghana 7-0 Nigeria (1955)
Ghana 5-2 Nigeria (1959)
Ghana 4-1 Nigeria (1960)
Ghana 5-1 Nigeria (1961)
Ghana 4-1 Nigeria (2007)
After this years’s world cup qualification ill luck for Nigeria against Ghana, is going to be very difficult for any Ghana team ( junior, senior, women) to beat Nigeria again.
Brother Bobo CS, since 1994, it has been difficult for the Ghana Black Stars ‘A’ team to defeat the Super Eagles ‘A’ team. In that period, our score card against Ghana stands at 5 wins, 7 draws and just 3 losses.
Since 2011,the Super Eagles ‘A’ team hasn’t suffered a single loss to Ghana’s ‘A’ team. All those games have ended in draws.
Additionally, between 2021 and 2022, Nigeria’s score card against Ghana in national team football across all age groups and genders stands as 3 wins, 2 draws and just 1 loss.
Just take a look at the score card presented by Mr Badge above. The devil, they say, is in the detail. A whole 90% of Ghana’s victories in his presentation occurred in the 1950s and 60s: in short, ancient history.
The Super Eagles formally announced itself to the world as a formidable force in world football in 1994. Since then, I am pleased to say that our score card against Ghana has been positive (as evidence in Mr Badge’s presentation above).
In the dinosaur age, Ghana was superior to Nigeria. In the Internet-social media age, the balance is firmly redressed.
Nigeria is superior to Ghana in national team football across genders in all age groups. And they can take that to the bank!
Yes, history shows Nigeria does not know how to play Ghana. Every time we play Ghana we change our style of play because Ghanaians provoke us into a physical game. Ghana’s style is a physical fast-moving physical style of play. Nigeria’s is a passing style of play. But when we face Ghana, we change our style because we see ourselves as Ghana’s big brother and want to show them we can’t be bullied by their physical game and can match Ghana’s roughness for roughness.
Those who know how to play Ghana can easily beat them. You have to play Ghana by using their physicality against them; tempt them into fouls until they’re reduced in numbers by sending-offs.
Never try to match Ghana in their physical style. You will see in the World Cup against a team like Uruguay when Uruguay start falling over for fouls against Ghana.
Even Japan did this against Ghana that resulted a 4-1 thrashing. Algeria did the same and thrashed them 3-1.
Look at Ghana’s stats for fouls in the last 10 games it’s one of the worst in the world:
Ghana (2Y 1R) v Chile (3Y) -> (2Y 1R) = 2 yellow cards 1 red card
Ghana (2Y) v Japan(1Y)
Ghana (1Y) v Nigeria (1Y)
Nigeria (1Y) v Ghana (4Y)
Gabon (3Y) v Ghana (4Y 1R)
Ghana (1Y 1R) v Comoros (1Y)
Morocco (1Y) v Ghana (2Y)
Ghana (2Y) v S. Africa (2Y)
In their last 10 games, only one Nigerian has been sent off while 3 Ghanaians have been sent off. Ghana consistently gets more yellow cards than any team they play. After the first leg, all the Nigerian midfielders had injuries. In the 2nd leg game, we were using a right-back as a midfielder because we’d run out of midfielders thru injuries caused by Ghana who recorded 4 yellow cards against 1 for Nigeria in that game.
The lesson Nigeria should learn when playing a team like Ghana is “Never fight physically with Ghana. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.’”
@badge, Is the headline not about england? Why posting about your so called black ass results against us. Don’t you have sites in your country that you can post whatever nonsense you want to dispatch to the public. Why is it that the progress of Nigeria football always get you guys from Ghana always worried
Ghanians are always jealous of Nigerians.10 goals in a match and they can’t stand it.