Rangers manager Derek McInnes admitted that his side did not deserve to progress after an embarassing Europa League defeat to Jagiellonia Bialystok.
Rangers captain Lawrence Shankland levelled the tie on aggregate with an early penalty but a second half header from Nik Prelec was enough for the Polish side to go through.
Rangers will now drop into the Conference League playoffs and face FK Jablonec of the Czech Republic next week.
McInnes told Rangers TV: “I’m disappointed that we’ve exited the Europa League. The opportunity is gone and we have to say we haven’t done enough over both legs to merit getting through.
“I thought we were good value for 1-0. I thought they had a few scary moments but I just think where we are at the moment, as a team, I thought the goal would help us. We changed the shape to try to get Djeidi Gassama and Daisuke Yokota more involved.
“We stopped playing into our strikers and lost a bit of control of the game. At 1-0 the game is in the balance, we’ve still got it all to do. We had to step it up to go and get the next goal, and we never did.
“The goal was systematic of the types of goals we’ve lost throughout pre-season.”
McInnes is still waiting for his first win in charge of Rangers after joining from Hearts in the summer.
“I think it was justified to be honest,” he says. “What we served up in the second half was not good enough.”
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