In the first international fixture of the season, our Under-21s battled torrential rain and a well-drilled Feyenoord side to finish with a point on Tuesday evening at Meadow Park.
With several of our usual starters now on loan or with the first-team squad, Mehmet Ali included the likes of Bradley Ibrahim, Ethan Nwaneri and Luis Brown in his youthful side.
We started the game strongly, dominant in possession for the opening 20 minutes and continually challenging the Feyenoord defence. On our fifth corner in the first 10 minutes, a long delivery from Jack Henry-Francis found Zach Awe in the six-yard box, whose header just whizzed over the bar.