Dover's dream of playing at Wembley in the Vanarama National League Play-off Final was ended at Forest Green Rovers on Saturday.

Trailing 1-0 from Wednesday's cagey first-leg at Crabble Dover needed to win, and they began brightly, taking a second-half lead through Ricky Miller's deflected strike, only to surrender their lead to Keanu Marsh-Brown's stunner six minutes later which was enough to secure a 2-1 aggregate win, despite a grandstand finish.

Dover boss Chris Kinnear made a single change to his 55th starting XI of the season, recalling Sean Raggett for Connor Essam, while among Rovers' two changes was a start for Wednesday night's hero Brett Williams.

Sam Magri tested Steve Arnold with a dipping long range volley from an angle inside five minutes and Ricky Miller fizzed a 20-yard effort over the bar soon after.

Williams saw appeals for a penalty waved away after bundling into the box on 13 minutes but two minutes later Keanu Marsh-Brown broke 60 yards from a corner before teeing-up Rob Sinclair, whose low shot from an angle was held by Mitch Walker.

Stefan Payne was inches wide after collecting a high ball in the box with his back to goal before spinning and dragging his shot across the face of goal and inches wide of the far post.

The end-to-end game continued and Williams jinked one way and the other several times to buy a yard before stinging Walker's palms with a low drive from 20 yards.

Nicky Deverdics sent a 30-yard free-kick harmlessly wide at the other end just before the half-hour but their best chance fell to Miller nine minutes before the break when Modeste hassled Charlie Clough into conceding possession in his own six-yard box with the ball bouncing to Miller who could only blaze into the side-netting with Arnold diving at his feet.

Clough boomed a headed a yard over the bar from a Rovers corner seconds before the break while two minutes after the turnaround Miller and Modeste engineered a two-on-one chance with Modeste eventually seeing a drilled shot tipped wide by Arnold.

If they thought their chance had gone, they were wrong, seconds later Miller again picked up possession and drove towards the box before firing in a low drive from 20 yards which cannoned off Ben Jefford and bounced to the right of the stranded Arnold to send the travelling fans wild.

The lead lasted less than six minutes and when the equaliser arrived it was a carbon copy of Rovers' goal on Wednesday, Marsh-Brown edging to buy a yard outside the box before curling a superb strike into the far top corner.

The vocal home crowd came to life and sub Kieffer Moore sent an acrobatic volley high and wide as the hosts sought to settle the tie, however midway through the half Arnold punched a high cross only as far as Sam Magri who almost broke the underside of the bar with a volley from 15 yards which cannoned out and was whisked away.

Raggett nodded a cross across the face of goal as the tension rose while Marsh-Brown's low cross evaded three attackers at the other end and actually led to a Dover break the length of the field from which Miller fired past the post from an angle with Modeste unmarked in the middle.

Chris Kinnear Jr dipped a volley from the edge of the box inches wide of Arnold's post as the game became more stretched with the hosts unsure whether to press for a killer second goal on the night.

Miller saw appeals for another penalty waved away, though his flick freed Payne who couldn't get a shot off and instead found Modeste whose shot was deflected wide.

Payne's shot appeared to strike an arm with six minutes to go and Rovers sitting deep in their own half but ref Michael Salisbury was unmoved.

Dover threw everything at their hosts in the closing stages and four minutes of injury-time but could not find a leveller and it was the Rovers fans who invaded the pitch at the final whistle and will head to Wembley next Sunday to face Braintree or Grimsby Town.

Rovers: Arnold, Clough, Bennett, Marsh-Brown, Frear (Moore 50mins), Racine, Guthrie, Sinclair, Carter (Kamdjo 88mins), Williams (Parkin 77mins), Jefford. Subs not used: Pidgeley, Pipe.

Dover: Walker, Magri (Marsh 90mins), Kinnear, Raggett, Orlu, Modeste, Miller, Deverdics, Parkinson, Thomas, Payne. Subs not used: Bellamy, Grimes, Sterling, Rafferty.

Attendance: 2,755 (353 Dover fans)