Rising Newcastle United stars experience harsh Swedish lessons with the Young Lions

The Young Lions had a thrilling 3-2 victory against the Netherlands on Wednesday.

However, a different story when the England Under 18s ran into Sweden this weekend in their second of three matches in Valencia.

Rising Newcastle United stars Roman Dowell and Kyran Thompson started against Sweden.

Both are exciting NUFC prospects.

An attacking player, Kyran Thompson recently turned 17 and has been in brilliant form for the Newcastle United Under 18s and Under 21s so far this season. He decided to leave Arsenal and join Newcastle this summer gone.

Whilst 16-year-old Newcastle United goalkeeper Roman Dowell (pictured at the top of this report) is making great strides at NUFC. Like Kyran Thompson, Dowell has also been in great form for both the Newcastle United Under 18s and Under 21s this season.

At the Oliva Nova venue in Valencia the Young Lions given some harsh Swedish lessons.

There were no real signs of what was to come in a pretty even uneventful opening half.

However, the Young Lions swiftly found themselves 2-0 down in no time after the break.

Roman Dowell left badly exposed by those in front of him, with Leonel Eklund scoring shortly after the restart and then Marlon Ebietomere made it 2-0 only minutes later.

Then with 17 minutes to go it was more of the same, Sweden going 3-0 when Eklund grabbed his second goal.

Roman Dowell played the full match, whilst his NUFC teammate Kyran Thompson was taken off just before the hour mark.

Some tough lessons to be learnt and for the United pair and their England teammates, at this early stage of their careers sometimes you learn more from a defeat such as this one than you do when you are winning.

Final score: Sweden Under 18s 3 England Under 18s 0

England: 13 Roman Dowell (Newcastle United), 3 Calvin Diakite (Chelsea), 5 Marlow Barrett (Manchester City), 6 Tyrese Noubissie (RC Strasbourg), 7 Ryan Kavuma-McQueen (Portsmouth, loan from Chelsea), 8 Hugo De Lisle (Leicester City), 12 Riley Ebho (Chelsea), 14 Kyran Thompson (Newcastle United), 16 Reon Smith (West Ham United), 17 Oliver Boast (Tottenham Hotspur), 20 Erik Farkas (Liverpool).

Substitutes: 23 Jacob Watson (Manchester United) for Diakite 24’, 11 Jeremy Monga (Swansea City, loan from Manchester City) for Kavuma-McQueen 46’, 18 Max Little (Southampton) for De Lisle 46’, 21 Jerome Abbey (Wolverhampton Wanderers) for Noubissie 59’, 9 Jashayde Greenwood (Chelsea) for Thompson 59’, 10 Samuel Alker (Leeds United) for Farkas 59, 15 Gabriel Sambou (Chelsea) for Ebho 71’, 19 Teddie Lamb (Manchester City) for Boast 71’

It is Switzerland v England kick-off 3pm GMT, Monday 16 November, to finish off this trio of Young Lions matches in Valencia.