SCOTLAND Schoolboys Under-18s beat their 10-man England counterparts 2-0 at Bootham Crescent on Friday evening thanks to goals from Daniel MacKay and Nathan Fell.

MacKay opened the scoring in the Centenary Shield game, glancing home a corner after his penalty was well saved by Callum Coulter and Fell settled the game with a curling injury-time effort.

England's Cormac Pike was shown a straight red for a reckless challenge with 15 minutes remaining in an increasingly fiery second half while the lively King Baidoo was booked for simulation.

Both sides looked to be sizing each other up in the opening stages as possession changed hands frequently with few chances created.

Sam Walker sent in an early cross from the right for Scotland that went straight out before England’s Cieran Jackson fired over from outside the area.

MacKay earned his side the penalty just after quarter of an hour when he collected a ball on the left wing and jinked his way past two men before being felled in the box.

Coulter got down well to his left and pushed out with a strong hand for the ball to be cleared for a corner which was whipped in and met by MacKay at the near post.

Baidoo had a chance to level almost instantly as the game opened up, but fired his close-range shot from a tight angle into the side netting before heading wide from a Jackson corner.

He almost carved out another chance shortly after, beating his man for pace down the right and playing a dangerous ball into the box that was cut out at the crucial moment.

MacKay won a free kick in a dangerous area down the other end but Reece Rintoul could not clear the wall before Gavin Scott did well to work his way into the box but could not find the unmarked MacKay.

England started to regain composure in possession for the final 10 minutes of the half but did not fashion many clear-cut chances, with Pike seeing a shot blocked and Baidoo dragging wide.

The second half opened as more of a full-blooded derby fixture with MacKay and Aidan Kemp both seeing yellow while Scott looked to chase down keeper Coulter and Emmanuel Ogunrinde tried an ambitious flick and overhead kick.

On the hour, Baidoo was booked for simulation as he tricked his way into the box and went down under slight contact from behind.

Pike’s 77th-minute double-footed lunge on Fell saw England reduced to 10 before second-half substitute Jack Butler had a good chance to level, but headed over from Noah Smerdon’s incisive long-range free kick.

And Fell buried the game in the 92nd minute, collecting the ball from a defensive mix-up and hitting a sweet curling left-footer into the top left corner from 25 yards.

England Schoolboys manager Ben Lavelle said: “I thought some of the better football came from us and I thought we were the better team on the night, but we didn’t take our chances.

“It’s nice to come to a lovely city like York. It’s good to come to an old ground like this and play one of the games at a proper ground like this, because sometimes they’re not quite as good as this.”

England: Coulter, McCallum, Brooks (Colling), Pike, Crowther (O’Connor-Ajayi), Baidoo, Howell (Neligwa), Smerdon, Doyle, Jackson (Penny), Ogunrinde (Butler). Subs not used: Deda, Gould.

Scotland: Anderson, McKeown, Clark, Brown, McDowall, Walsh, Walker (Harwood), Rintoul, Scott (Fell), Hodge (Kemp), MacKay (Watt). Subs not used: Currid, Chalmer, Fagan.

Attendance 841