England Under-16s suffered frustration in their opening match of the Montaigu Tournament, losing 2-0 to Saudi Arabia.
Hot off the back of victories over Denmark and Belgium at St. George's Park in February, Kenny Swain's Young Lions were hoping to get off to a winning start in Mareuil Sur Lay - but it was not to be.
England U16 0-2 Saudi Arabia
Montaigu Tournament
Mareuil Sur Lay, France
Tuesday, 15 February
Saudi Arabia opened the scoring on 19 minutes and seven minutes later they had doubled their lead.
Swain tried to turn the tide by making three changes at half-time, and a further two on 63 minutes, but the second half ended goalless.
England take on South Korea at the same venue on Thursday, before heading to play Portugal in Chateau d'Olonne.
England (4-2-3-1): 13 Aston Oxborough; 16 Ro-Shaun Williams, 5 Cameron Humphreys, 12 Easah Suliman, 3 Hayden Coulson; 10 Jacob Maddox, 4 Tom Davies; 17 Zachary Dearnley, 11 Yan Dhanda, 14 Nathan Holland; 9 Jahmal Hector-Ingram.
Substitutes: 2 Danny Collinge (for Williams ht), 6 Will Patching (for Dearnley ht), 8 Adam Phillips (for Holland ht), 15 Foday Nabay (for Davies 63), 18 Layton Ndukwu (for Maddox 63).
Substitutes not used: 1 Alfie Whiteman, 7 Charlie Wakefield, 18 Layton Ndukwu.
