Gary Lineker claims England should learn from Liverpool after woeful Hungary loss

Gary Lineker has claimed that England should be more like Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool following his country’s 4-0 Nations League defeat to Hungary on Tuesday. The Match of the Day host believes that Gareth Southgate should have rested his key players after a gruelling season. 

Lineker took to Twitter, writing: “I said previously that @EnglandFootball missed a trick by not resting all their important players so they’d be fresh for the World Cup. Would have also loved to have seen us adopt Liverpool’s way of playing. Would suit us perfectly. I also acknowledge, I’ve never been a coach.”

Southgate did make nine changes from the side that drew 0-0 with Italy on Saturday. However his side went 1-0 down in the 15th minute when Roland Sallai slammed the ball past Aaron Ramsdale after John Stones mis-cued his header. Hungary doubled their lead in the 69th minute when Martin Allen took the ball off Kalvin Phillips and laid the ball on for Sallai to grab his second of the game.

A third Hungary goal came ten minutes later when a loose ball dropped to Zsolt Nagy who drove a shot from 25 yards into the back of the net. Stones was then shown a second yellow card for a foul on Daniel Gazdag. In a dismal night for the Three Lions, Hungary got their fourth when Gazdag latched onto a through ball and finished past Ramsdale.

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