Manchester City attacker Raheem Sterling has rejected criticism of England coach Gareth Southgate.

Southgate's future has been questioned after last night's 4-0 home defeat to Hungary.

"No one was expecting it," experienced forward Sterling told BBC Radio 5 Live. "I think it's been a disappointed camp overall in a sense that there's been games that we should have won.

"But football's cruel sometimes and we'll take this one on the chin, recover well and get ready for the campaign in September.

"Of course it's disappointing, of course there's going to be question marks, of course there's going to be doubts.

"But I'm more than confident in the group that we have. It's solely down to us as players.

"We put good enough sides on each and every match that we've played and we just haven't got the results. We haven't been competitive enough, we haven't been ruthless enough - myself also.

"So, it's one that we just look at ourselves as a collective and I know once we have that well-deserved break that we need and we come back, we'll be ready again."