Rhyl's Lee Hunt goes for goal

But the Welsh Cup winners wasted a golden opportunity at Belle Vue to take a lead to Lithuania in the second leg.

Left-back James Brewerton flashed a header inches wide on 72 minutes.

Six minutes later from another free-kick, substitute striker Chris Sharp also headed wide with visiting goalkeeper Gytis Padinauskas stranded.

In a game of very few genuine goal-scoring opportunities, the first half had almost expired before there was any real goal-mouth action.

Visiting left-back Davit Chighladze's cross-shot flew inches wide of the far post, before striker Otavio Augusto Braga forced a diving save from Rhyl goalkeeper Paul Whitfield.

The Lilywhites managed a threat of their own before the break, when Padinauskas had to be alert to punch a Marc Connolly corner from under his own crossbar.

The second half followed a similar pattern, with each side locking the other out until another late flurry when Rhyl upped the tempo.

But although Brewerton and Sharp both failed to convert their good opportunities, Rhyl will be encouraged by the threat they posed from set-pieces.

That could prove fruitful in the return leg in the Su'duva Stadium, Marijampole, on 27 July.

Rhyl: Whitfield, Mark Powell, Horan, Tim Edwards, Brewerton, Connolly, Wilson, Murtagh, Moran, Hunt, Hay. Subs: Gann, Sharp, Moody, Gary Powell, Owen, Burrows, Rafferty.

FK Suduva: Padimanskas, Davit Cigladze, Gvildys, Grigas, Mikuckis, Miklinevicius, Cordeiro, Adomaitis, Urbsys, Maciulis, Braga. Subs: Saulius Klevinskas, Besik Cigladze, Maciulevicius, Giedrius Slavickas, Uselis, Samusiovas, Abramenko.