ANDY MORRISON issued a word of warning to Sarajevo after they knocked Connah’s Quay Nomads out of the Champions League.

A double from Benjamin Tatar was enough to secure Sarajevo’s passage into the second qualifying round, but the Bosnian outfit’s play-acting overshadowed their success in Cardiff.

And Morrison expects Sarajevo to come unstuck when they head to Dynamo Brest in next week’s tie.

“I’ve never, in my footballing life, seen anything like what we had to put up with,” said Morrison, who was booked after Amar Rahmonovic had gone to ground easily in-front of his technical area during a heated first-half.

“I thought the referee didn’t deal with it early on and in the 88th minute I’m asking the fourth official why has it taken this long to book a lad for diving when he’d done it 11 times.

“How can that be allowed to happen?

“We played against Serbian teams. We played Vojvodina and Partizan Belgrade, who are monsters, they are men, they want to compete, they don’t want to roll around.

“Sarajevo are from Bosnia, it’s a similar part of the world and I didn’t expect that at all.

“We’ve watched them and we thought they were soft, we thought they were there as the game went on, but I didn’t expect that.”

Nomads were more than a match for their visitors, who were fortunate to see Michael Wilde’s early header bounce wide of Vladan Kovacevic’s goal.

“It’s taken a mistake for them to go 1-0 up,” continued Morrison, who was up until around 6am watching the game back.

“They’ve not had a shot, our keeper has not had a shot to save in the first-half.

“Everything we went with tactically was brilliant, but we’ve switched off - and you can’t switch off.

“I’m loathed to give them any respect and say ‘if you switch off at this level you’ll get punished’ because they weren’t that good, and I expect that to be shown when they move forward.

“I’m not being bitter, I’m just angry with some of the stuff we had to deal with out there.”

If the first goal was a sucker-punch then the second Tatar effort was a killer blow, the lively winger making the most of some uncharacteristically inviting defensive work to burst through the middle of the Nomads’ back four and coolly fire past the helpless Lewis Brass.

“We were magnificent, we were brilliant to a man,” said Morrison, whose men will now enter the Europa League at the second qualifying round stage.

“They’ve given everything they can and it just wasn’t meant to be.

“We had a great chance early on - I thought it was in - and then out of possession, we’ve dominated the game because they can’t hurt us.

“During the best period of the game, we are dominating the ball, we are getting into the box, we make a really poor decision and it’s 2-0.

“Thankfully the couple of chances they had didn’t go in and they didn’t flatter themselves with the result.

“They will come here and say they’ve done a job, but we shall see how far they go.”