The collision of England under the age of 21 with Germany came to a halt after a failure of the spotlight.
With just a few seconds left from the first half, the Nitra Stadium in Slovakia was immersed in Semi -Druisnis.
That forced the Dutch referee Sander van der Eijk to stop the action.
Eventually, with only a minute extra time to go, the civil servant from Kapitan's Harvey Elliott and his German counterpart Merlin Rohl called in.
Lights on one side of the ground still worked, but no one on the other was too.
Both sets of players walked around with half the ground in the dark.
After further discussions, the decision to blow early for the break for 30 seconds, while technicians quickly went to work to solve the problem.
That summarized a terrible first half in front of Lee Carsley's side when they went in two goals in a row.
Lukas Ullrich drove a beautiful ball over the head of the flat Voet's Jarell Quansah that was met by an excellent touch by Ansgar Knauff before the winger drilled past James Beadle after just two minutes.
And the scorer turned the provider a little before the lights went out when his cross went home through Nelson Weiper.
A UEFA team of clear sparks gathered during the interval among the broken spotlights and their hot wiring came up when the game could resume on time.
That left England just opposite a mountain to climb the next 45 minutes while they fought to prevent elimination.
England defeated the Czech Republic in their first group game, thanks to goals from Elliott, Jonathan Rowe and Charlie Cresswell.
The men of Carsley followed that the last time-out with a 0-0 bore pull versus Slovenia.