Glentoran crash out to RFS in Conference League

UEFA Conference League

RFS (4) 2 - 0 (1) Glentoran FT

Glentoran lost 2-0 away to Latvian side RFS in the second leg of their Uefa Conference League first qualifying round tie, going down 4-1 on aggregate.

Trailing 2-1 from last week's first leg in Belfast, the scale of the challenge facing the Irish Premiership side grew further when they found themselves a goal down after just five minutes when Modou Saidy found the net.

After some nice work down the left, the ball was laid back to the edge of the area and a shot was saved, but only to the feet of Saidy, who knocked it home from five yards.

Janis Ikavnieks doubled their lead 16 minutes into the second half at LNK Sporta Parks in Riga to condemn the Glens to an early exit from the competition.

Goalkeeper Billy Crellin passed out to his defender but slipped and RFS went clean through on goal.

The ball was squared and Ikaunieks tapped home from eight yards.

Jordan Stewart went close early on for the visitors, while also in the first half, Pat Hoban flashed a header just wide.

In the second half, Marcus Kane, introduced as a first-half substitute for the injured Daniel Larmour, found the net, but was adjudged to have used his hand.

Lasha Odisharia curled a shot over for RFS, while late on Saidy went close to scoring his second of the game but his shot from 10 yards went wide of the left-hand upright.