RYAN KENT will need some time to get over his last-gasp miss against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League final, says Kris Boyd.
The Gers attacker got on the end of a Kemar Roofe cross in the dying moments of extra-time in Seville.
However, the Englishman could not slot his effort past Kevin Trapp in the Frankfurt goal, as the keeper denied Kent from close-range.
The game then progressed to penalties, where Rangers eventually lost 5-4 to their German counterparts.
Boyd says Giovanni van Bronckhorst and his players can be immensely proud of their efforts.
But he admitted there's no doubt Kent will be rueing that miss for some time to come.
He told Sky Sports: "The Rangers players can be proud of their achievements in this competition. It just wasn't to be.
"It is a cruel way to lose a final, but somebody's got to win it. You've got to give Eintracht Frankfurt credit because the standard of the penalties was very, very good.
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"Rangers gave as good as they got and did enough to win it. The chance that Ryan Kent had, that was the moment where, if it had gone in, it was done.
"He'll be playing the moment over and over again in his head, 100 per cent. I do it myself with that chance I missed in Villarreal all those years ago.
"With it coming in a European final, it's a difficult one to take. I will take Kent a while to get over that one. Yes, it was a good save, but from where it was, you'd expect him to score with the talent he's got."
