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As the nation celebrated the Platinum Jubilee back home, there was far less conviviality inside the England dressing room here on Saturday night.
Gareth Southgate tried his best to lessen the damage caused by his team’s loss to Hungary in their first Nations League fixture, insisting results like this are inevitable on the road to Qatar 2022.
England have no friendlies between now and their first World Cup group game against Iran on November 21 — so the head coach has no other option but to experiment in these Nations League fixtures. As hard as he might try to take the Nations League seriously, he has bigger fish to fry with the World Cup little more than five months away.
England lost to Hungary on Saturday for the first time since the 1962 World Cup in Chile
‘I knew going into this block of four games that you run the risk of some results that might hurt,’ said Southgate. ‘But I have to look at the bigger picture and ignore the inevitable that comes with defeats and take what I will learn from it going into Qatar.
Gareth Southgate will continue to tinker
‘We have not got friendlies to try
