Kumasi Asante Kotoko have crushed out of the 2019 Caf Confederations Cup after a 2-0 loss to San Pedro of Ivory Coast on Sunday.

A lackluster performance at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan saw the porcupine crushed out of the competition by a 2-1 aggregate loss to the Ivorian side.

Kjetil Zachariassen side had gone into the game with a one nil lead on aggregate but conceded a goal just under the first two minutes as Cheick Soumahoro scored the opener for a determined San Pedro side.

Zachariassen made three changes to his line-up that started the one nil victory in Kumasi

Centre-back Wahab Adams and attacker Kelvin Andoh were preferred to Stephen Ayiku Tetteh and Songne Yacouba, while Alex Didi Arnorld and Samuel Frimpong were chosen ahead of Augustine Okrah and Emmanuel Gyamfi.

Kotoko decided to start with a lone man up front in the shape of Richard Arthur benching the likes of Sogne Yacouba and Emmanuel Gyamfi.

The porcupine warriors struggled to create any chances of note as they spent long spells of the game putting out fires from the home sides dangerous attacks from Koaume Kramo and Mbondi Christ.

Deep into injury time as everyone in the stadium thought the match was heading for extra time substitute Amede Diomande had other ideas as he netted the clincher to send the almost empty stadium into raptures.

As if that was not enough Kotoko right back on the day Emmanuel Agyemang Badu managed to get himself sent off but the harm had already been done.