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Irish club Bohemians completed a comprehensive defeat of Rhyl in the Intertoto Cup first round with a 4-2 win at Belle Vue.

On Saturday, Irish club Bohemians completed a comprehensive defeat of Rhyl in the Intertoto Cup first round with a 4-2 win at Belle Vue.

The Welsh side went out 9-3 on aggregate, following last week's 5-1 reverse in the first leg match in Dublin.

The Lilywhites' hopes of an unlikely comeback were ended in the first half of the contest by a goal from Stephen O'Donnell.

It sparked a burst of goals as Jason Byrne doubled the lead from the penalty spot, then Jason McGuinness made it 3-0.

Although Mark Connolly struck back for the Welsh Premier side with two goals, former Leeds United midfielder Harpal Singh added a fourth for the visitors before the interval.

The Eircom League leaders will now play either Latvia's FK Riga or Fylkir FC, with the latter holding a 2-1 advantage from the first leg ahead of Sunday's return in Iceland.

Also on Sunday, Scottish club Hibernian will have their second-round opponents confirmed.

They are set to face Swedish club IF Elfsborg, who hold a 4-1 advantage over Faroe Islands outfit HB Torshavn ahead of the second leg in Boras. The two-legged tie will take place on 5/6 and 12/13 July.

Aston Villa will have an eye on the result of the first-round tie between Northern Ireland's Lisburn Distillery and Finnish side TPS Turku.

The Finns lead 3-2 from last week's away leg in County Antrim and if they progress on Sunday, they will face Danish club Odense BK.

The winners of that tie then meet Villa in a third-round tie on the weekends of 19/20 and 26/27 July.

Results

Grbalj (Montenegro) 2 Celik Zenica (Bosnia & Herzegovina) 1

Grbalij win on away goals after 4-4 on aggregate.

Ethnikos Achnas (Cyprus) 1 Besa (Albania) 1

Besa win on away goals after 1-1 on aggregate.

Nitra (Slovakia) 3 Neftchi Baku (Azerbaijan) 1

Neftchi Baku win on away goals after 3-3 on aggregate.

FC Tiraspol (Moldova) 0 MIKA Ashtarak (Armenia) 0

FC Tiraspol win on away goals after 2-2 on aggregate.

Lokomotivi Tbilisi (Georgia) 2 Etzella Ettelbrueck (Luxembourg)

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Etzella Ettelbrueck win on away goals after 2-2 on aggregate.

Renova Cepciste (Macedonia FYR) 2 Rijeka (Croatia) 0

Renova Cepciste win 2-0 on aggregate.

Trans Narva (Estonia) 0 Ekranas Panevezys (Lithuania) 3

Ekranas Panevezys win 4-0 on aggregate.

Elfsborg Boras (Sweden) 0 HB (Faroe Islands) 0

Elfsborg Boras win 4-1 on aggregate.

Rhyl (Wales) 2 Bohemians (Ireland) 4

Bohemians win 9-3 on aggregate.

TeamTalk / Eurosport