Owen had been a peripheral figure for most of the match, and he was frustrated with eight minutes left as Charles N'Zogbia broke into the area, but his cross-shot evaded the stretching England striker.
And N'Zogbia, who plays primarily on the left, insists he is keen to stay in England - even if clubs from France's Ligue 1 were to make a bid to sign him.
In addition to commenting on his girlfriend's suicide in January, England lamented his father's death exactly two years earlier "at the hands of a f--king n----r" in an April 5 message on his Facebook page.