Just over three minutes to go until the break in Riga. The hosts looking to kill the pace of the game.

A long Ryan Cooney throw from the left travels into the danger zone of the RFS box. Zeno Rossi gets his head on the ball but it is straight at the keeper. Better though.

Ross Clarke attacks down the right but can't quite get the connection required on his cross.

At the moment Clarke looks like the most likely threat for the visitors if they can get him involved in proceedings a little more.

Glentoran with some possession inside the RFS half. Can they make something happen?

So far, high balls into the box are not working against a very tall RFS defence.

The Latvians almost have a second.

An attack down the left leads to a looped effort over the head of Billy Crellin in goal. The big keeper gets a touch on it to fend it away from target and Marcus Kane clears for a corner; which comes to nothing.

RFS certainly playing the tidier football at the moment. They are very comfortable in possession.

Glentoran finding it hard to have an impact.

Zeno Rossi picks up a yellow card for Glentoran after a pull on the shirt of an attacking RFS winger.

Just to remind you, RFS lead 3-1 on aggregate as it stands.

Glentoran go so close to finding an equaliser.

The ball is worked to Ross Clarke down the right and he delivers a delicious cross to the near post where is is met by the head of Pat Hoban. But his flashing header goes just wide of the far post.

What an impact that would have been on the tie.

Free-kick on halfway for Glentoran, but Joe Thomson can't find a team-mate in the area and it is cleared.

Lasha Odisharia cuts in from the right and offloads a curling left-footed effort from the edge of the box, but it just goes an inch over the bar.

More bad news for Glentoran. In the build-up to that goal, Daniel Larmour went down with a knock and it looks like he will be replaced soon.

Marcus Kane is the man set to come on.

The visitors go so close to taking the lead.

Jordan Stewart receives the ball down the left before cutting inside and letting fly with his right foot from 20 yards.

Unfortunately, for him, the ball whistles just the wrong side of the far post.

Early possession very much the way of the hosts, but the ball remains in their own half.

Glentoran get the ball rolling in Latvia

The sun is shining in Riga and Glentoran are all in gold. Can they cause an upset and advance? Let's find out.

Larne booked their place in the second qualifying round of the Champions League for the first time courtesy to a 2-1 win over nine-man Tre Fiori at Inver Park.

Pietro Mengucci gave the visitors a shock lead early on, before goals from Matt Ridley and Dan Bent either side of the break turned the game on it's head.

Both Simone Rea and Tommaso Bernardi were sent off by referee Sigurd Kringstad for two yellow cards in quick succession in the second half as Tre Fiori finished with nine men.

A date with Red Star Belgrade now awaits Gary Haveron's side in the second round qualifying after a fairly comfortable 3-1 aggregate victory over the San Marino-based side.

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Glentoran manager Declan Devine said his side will "take huge confidence" into the second leg of their Conference League first round qualifier against RFS.

The Glens were narrowly defeated 2-1 by RFS during a tight first leg at the Oval with debutant Zeno Rossi breaking the deadlock before Martins Kigurs netted twice for the away side.

Devine's side will now attempt to overturn the one-goal deficit when they travel to Latvia for the second leg on 16 July.

"All in all, a positive night, nobody wants to lose, it's only half-time," Devine told BBC Sport NI.

"I was super proud of the players and the effort that they've put in. Their two goals are huge slices of good luck in it. I thought we defended brilliantly and I thought hit them on the counter-attack. I thought our game plan worked really well.

"We were solid, we needed to be solid. We asked questions of them, especially late in the half, the second half. All the boys should take huge credit and confidence going into Latvia."

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Glentoran manager Declan Devine feels his side "didn't have those moments of luck" in their 2-1 defeat by RFS in the Conference League first round qualifier first leg at the Oval.

Glentoran boss Declan Devine makes two changes to his starting XI for tonight's crunch second-leg tie here in Riga from the team that went down 2-1 at the Oval last week.

Ross Clarke and Jordan Stewart are the two men who are elevated to the starting line-up, as Devine looks for some experienced attacking threat. Jordan Jenkins and Josh Kelly are the men to make way.

The hosts make just one change this evening, with winger Lasha Odisharia coming in from the start, as they look for a win or a draw that would see them through to round two of qualification.

RFS: Nerugals, Kumater, Lipuscek (c), Prenga, Filipovic, Panic, Saidy, Zelenkovs, Ikaunieks, Odisharia, Ndjiki.

Subs: Matrevics, Sliede, Savalnieks, Veips, Rakic, Kigurs, Mankenda, Lemajic.

Glentoran: Crellin, Cooney, Larmour, Rossi, Singleton (c), Malone, Stewart, Clarke McEneff, Thomson, Hoban.

Subs: Mills, Donnelly, Kane, Kelly, Jenkins, Daniels, Lindsay, Weatherup, Gallagher, Sloggett, Douglas.