Tottenham striker Jon Obika was on the scoresheet for England in their 2-0 pre-U20 World Cup friendly win over Australia today. Obika volleyed home just two minutes after kickoff, while England's second goal came from the spot after Manchester City midfielder Adam Clayton was upended inside the Australian penalty area. MK Dons striker Sam Baldock struck the penalty midway through the second-half.

"You always like to win the game, but if you look at what we got out of this game it was more important than the score,'' Australia coach Jan Versleijen said.

"If you look our the line up we had six players who are eligible for the next Young Socceroos team, so that was a positive for us, and playing against England is always good.

"This game was decided by details, a goal against from a corner and then a penalty. If you see the field play, they were a bit more consistent but we had two or three good chances, which at this level you need to score at least one goal from those.

"This game was tactically more difficult (than the Trinidad and Tobago game), England is more patient and more organised, where the Trinidad game was more an opportunist's game, but it's good to come up against different styles of play because that's how it will be at the World Cup, coming up against Czech Republic, Costa Rica and then Brazil.

"It was good to see pretty much everyone get through the whole match and the midfield is starting to understand better the things they have to do.

"Overall I'm happy with the progress, building up from behind, the way the midfield's starting to work together, we just need to do a bit more into the final third, in particular getting balls into our striker.

"Rooney hasn't played with this team but once they realised how he plays and used him more we started creating some half chances.''

Versleijen handed Aston Villa midfielder Chris Herd and Newcastle Jets striker Sean Rooney their U20 debuts.