Hearts will play in the Europa Conference League group stage after a 3-1 aggregate loss against Swiss champions FC Zurich in the Europa League play-offs, which was confirmed with a 1-0 second leg defeat at Tynecastle.
Alan Forrest had the game's first big chance and was left wondering how goalkeeper Yanick Brecher denied him from levelling the tie following a 2-1 defeat in the first leg after a superb long-range effort. Kye Rowles was next to try his luck and Barrie McKay was lobbing ball after ball into Zurich's box in search of that crucial goal.
Liam Boyce somehow headed over the bar as Hearts were left with 45 minutes to score at least once for extra-time and twice for victory. That task turned south when Jorge Grant was deemed to have dived in the box and sent off for a second booking. That proved costly as slowly momentum was lost and Fabian Rohner scored a crucial opener on the night for Zurich to send them through. Here's how we rated the Jambos in Europa League action as they look to tomorrow's draw in the tier below.
