This is a result widely being described as “England’s second exit from Europe” in five days.

Iceland 2, England 1, in the round of 16 at the Euro 2016 tournament in France.

Yes, Iceland. Previously known for volcanoes, blond people and, yes, ice.

Here in France we watched the match on BBC. And by the end commentators and analysts were struggling for new ways to describe how England lost to a country with a population of 330,000 — about the same as live in a bunch of English cities of which you are not familiar. (Coventry, anyone?)

It was so bad that several talking heads went back to England’s 1-0 defeat versus the amateur side fielded by the United States at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil — still considered the ultimate World Cup upset.

Whether this defeat was worse … opinion seemed divided.

Some of the descriptions of England’s performance?

The match report in The Guardian contained these words: Desperate, ignominious, full-on humiliation, infamous.

And that was just the first paragraph.

Other words used by the English media included: Shameful, abject, embarrassment, ridiculous, collapse, frozen, panicked.

It has been a busy week for England, which led the surprisingly successful referendum to have Great Britain leave the European Union (known as “Brexit”), which has shaken the UK as well as Europe.

And now this. The Masters of the Game losing to a team ranked 133rd four years ago, from a country without a professional league.

Commentators often noted than England fielded a team of Premier League all-stars yet contrived to lose to a team with guys named Sigurdsson (two of them), Bjarnson (two more), Halldorson, Gudmundsson …

In England’s slight defense, Iceland has been on the rise over the past four years. In qualifying for this tournament the Icelanders twice beat The Netherlands, and also defeated Turkey and the Czech Republic — finishing second in their group to advance to this tournament.

England fans apparently are not impressed by Iceland’s recent results. At the end of the match tonight Three Lions fans at the match in Nice were chanting: “You don’t deserve to wear the shirt.”

The coach, a nice but overmatched man named Roy Hodgson, resigned immediately after the match.

England is a chronic underachiever at major tournaments, which in their case means the World Cup and the European Championship — now currently known by the shorthand Euro 2016, etc.

England has not won a knockout game since the 2006 World Cup,when it defeated Ecuador 1-0. Since then? A penalty-shot defeat to Portugal in that 2006 tournament; a failure to qualify for Euro 2008; a 4-1 loss to Germany in the round of 16 at the 2010 World Cup; a shootout loss to Italy in the quarterfinals of Euro 2012; a group-stage exit from the 2014 World Cup. And now this.

Before the match, the BBC commentator described the game as “an obvious mismatch”, and it looked like England would be fine when Wayne Rooney scored a penalty just four minutes in.

Iceland responded almost immediately, however, with their long-distance throw-in specialist getting a ball on the head of an Iceland attacker (who out-jumped the 5-foot-9 Rooney) and knocked it forward to an Iceland player who scored.

In the 18th minute, a little one-two by Iceland on the edge of the box ended up a slow-motion goal past England keeper Joe Hart, who was among the least ept of the losers’ side. England fell to pieces pretty much thereafter and by the end of the match five-yard passes became a chore and free kicks an adventure likely to end in the stands.

Not that England assumed, or anything, but even at halftime, trailing 2-1, BBC studio guys were talking about whether goalkeeper Hart should be benched for the quarterfinal with France — which Iceland will now be playing in, instead.

On a positive note, this was another example of a well-prepared team (Iceland, that is) defeating a bunch of individuals who had superior talent, man for man — and have the enormous contracts to prove it.

England never really came close to a tying goal in the second half as Iceland stood firm in their stodgy 4-4-2 formation.

Said an England fan while leaving the stadium: “A country of 65 million, and that’s the best we could do?”