Page 13 - Women's Soccer Scene Issue No.18 2022-23

Two of the contenders for the league title met each other as Rangers and leaders Glasgow City
battled out a goalless draw in a game of few clear cut chances. It was the second time that the
teams had shared the points this season and both remain unbeaten.
City’s lead has been trimmed to three points by Celtic after they narrowly got the better of
Hearts with a 2-1 victory. Jacynta Galabadaarachichi and Manglu Shen put Celtic two ahead at
the interval, before Hearts hit back in the second half with a goal from Jennifer Smith and they
also had an effort disallowed for offside.
Hibernian got back to winning ways with a 4-0 success away to Partick Thistle. Nor
Mustafa and Katie Lockwood put Hibs two ahead in the opening quarter of the game and they
went on to seal the points in the second half, Eilidh Adams curling home a delightful shot for the
third and Kirsty Morrison rounding off the scoring.
Spartans and Motherwell maintained their hopes of securing a top half place at the split
as they fought out a 0-0 draw in windy conditions at Ainslie Park. The result keeps the two teams
level on points and just below sixth placed Partick.
Aberdeen are out of the bottom two following a hard fought 1-0 win away to Aberdeen.
The only goal of the game came through a deflected shot from Hannah Stewart, early in the
second half, to earn the Dons their fourth win of the season.
Aberdeen therefore moved above Hamilton Academical and Dundee Utd whose
meeting ended in a 2-2 draw. Danni McGinley gave United a first half lead which was cancelled
out by Lauren Evans, before McGinley put her side back in front from the penaly spot. Eilidh
Martin levelled the scores once again with fifteen minutes remaining, to earn the Accies a share
of the spoils.
On Wednesday night, Rangers played their game in hand and closed the gap on the leaders
to four points when they defeated Aberdeen 4-1. Megan Bell gave Rangers a fifteenth minute lead
and Kirsty Howat netted a brace ahead of
half time. Eilidh Shore did become only SWPL 1 P W D L F A Pts GD
the second player to score past Rangers in GLASGOW CITY 16 14 2 2 0 1 61 6 3 44 55
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69
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CELTIC
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the league this season but the Champions RANGERS 16 12 4 0 69 2 40 67
were not finished, Jodi McLeary rounding HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 16 9 2 5 24 14 29 10
off the scoring with the fourth goal. HIBERNIAN 16 7 3 6 33 27 24 6
Montrose continue to stretch the PARTICK THISTLE 16 5 4 7 24 34 19 -10
pace at the top of SWPL 2, preserving their MOTHERWELL 16 4 5 7 18 32 17 -14
three point lead with a 4-1 victory over SPARTANS WFC 16 4 5 7 15 32 17 -17
Stirling University. Rebecca Hellgren ABERDEEN 16 4 4 2 2 10 15 37 14 -22
-32
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DUNDEE UTD
10 18 50 14
did give Stirling an early lead but the Mos HAMILTON ACADEMICAL 16 4 1 11 19 53 13 -34
hit back to take the points with goals from GLASGOW WOMEN 16 0 0 16 6 84 0 -78
Lauren Gordon (2), Charlotte Gammie
and Louise Brown. Second placed Glasgow Women 0 Aberdeen 1; Hamilton 2 Dundee Utd 2; Hearts 1
Gartcairn Women stay on their heels Celtic 2; Partick 0 Hibernian 4; Rangers 0 Glasgow City 0; Spartans
0 Motherwell 0. (Mid) Rangers 4 Aberdeen 1.
after winning 2-1 at Queen’s Park,
SWPL 2 P W D L F A Pts GD
Lyndsey Holmes and Lauren Kerr scoring MONTROSE 15 10 2 3 45 16 32 29
their goals after Eleanor Smith had put the GARTCAIRN WOMEN 15 9 2 4 28 21 29 7
Spiders ahead. A second half brace from KILMARNOCK 14 7 4 3 23 15 25 8
Alex Middleton earned Kilmarnock a 2-1 ST JOHNSTONE 15 7 3 5 23 25 24 -2
BOROUGHMUIR THISTLE 15 5 5 5 29 24 20 5
success away to Boroughmuir Thistle,
QUEEN'S PARK 14 6 1 7 25 26 19 -1
who replied through Courtney McAvoy, STIRLING UNIVERSITY 15 2 4 9 19 44 10 -25
and strikes from Morgan Steedman (2) EAST FIFE 15 0 5 10 12 33 5 -21
and Jodie Ovens saw St Johnstone to a
Boroughmuir 1 Kilmarnock 2; East Fife 1 St Johnstone 3; Montrose 4
3-1 victory over East Fife, whose
Stirling Univ 1; Queen’s Park 1 Gartcairn 2.
consolation came from Chloe Guppy.
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