Norwich City Under-18s took a 2-0 defeat to Southampton on the opening day of the 2021/2022 U18 Premier League season on Saturday afternoon.
A select few of the new first-year scholars got their first league start of the 2021/2022 season, including Finley Welch, Osman Foyo and Reece Trueman.
It didn’t take long for the game to heat up at the Lotus Training Centre, both teams scrapping to create whatever they could early on.
The best of these efforts fell to the visitors when they squared the ball across the face of goal, but it was just too fast for the Saints’ as it fizzed away from danger, much to the Canaries relief.