Sligo Rovers 0 Vorskla Poltava 2 (Aggregate 0-2) SLIGO ROVERS are out of Europe after a comprehensive second leg defeat to Vorskla Poltava at the Showgrounds.

First half goals from Serhiy Zakarlyuka and Pavel Rebenok inside 60 seconds left the home side with a mountain to climb, despite their superb scoreless draw away from home last week.

Jason McGuinness went close to pulling one back in the second half with a close range header that Serhiy Dolhanskiy stopped on the line.

But both Vasylj Sachlo and Jovan Markoski hit the crossbar as Poltava finished strongly.

Vorskla made three changes to the team that was held by Rovers last week, while the home side were dealt a blow before kick-off as Alan Keane was ruled out with a thigh injury picked up in training on Wednesday.

The visitors started brightly in front of the crowd of almost 3,500, and took the lead after just 16 minutes.

They created it from deep inside their own half as the excellent Ahmed Dallku worked the ball to Sachko via Oleg Krasnoperov and Markoski.

Sachko held onto possession inside the area before slipping the ball into the path of the on-rushing Zakarlyuka, who squeezed it low into the net from a tight angle.

Within a minute, Rovers conceded a second.

This time the goal came from the left-hand side, with Ivan Krivosheenko just doing enough to hold off the challenge of Conor Powell, and firing a low cross into the area for Pavel Rebenok to fire home.

Rovers best chance of the game came in the second half from a Joseph Ndo set-piece, with Jason McGuinness directing a header straight at a relieved Dolhanskiy.

But the visitors could have had a couple more goals on the counter-attack in the second period.

Sachko firstly rocketed a shot off the crossbar from close range after some great work by the excellent Dallku.

Markoski also clipped the crossbar from a late free-kick, and missed the target when one-on-one with Brendan Clarke after a superb through-ball from substitute Roman Bezus.

SLIGO ROVERS: Clarke, Ventre, McGuinness, Peers, Powell, Cretaro (Dillon 69), Ryan, Ndo, Kirby, Greene (Doyle 53), Blinkhorn (Russell 69).

VORSKLA POLTAVA: Dolhanskiy, Dallku, Kurylov, Chesnakov, Selin, Krivosheenko, Markoski, Zakarlyuka (Oberemko ht), Krasnoperov (Asipenka 80), Rebenok, Sachlo (Bezus 68).