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with 15 minutes left on the clock – her free-kick from the edge of the box beat the Celtic wall but
went over the bar.
City continued to drive forward in search of an equaliser – substitute Linda Motlhalo sent
Priscilla Chinchilla thro ugh, she evaded two Celtic tackles to lay it off, but Celtic were able to clear
the danger.
Tajonar was once again to be the heroine between the stick for Celtic – she produced a fantastic
save to deny Lisa Forrest when she was one-on-one – the rebound fell to Kinga Kozak, but she
couldn't get her shot on target.
There was further drama in added time, as Natalie Ross picked up her second yellow of the
match for a foul on Chinchilla just outside the box. Up stepped Lauren Davidson to take the
subsequent free-kick, but Tajonar was on hand to make a big save to deny her.
That proved to be the last action of the match; the Celtic fans jubilant as their side reached the
2023 Women's Scottish Cup Final.
(scottishfa.co.uk)

The Edinburgh derby had been delayed until Saturday night and once again it turned out to be a
close affair, with the points being shared.
Eilidh Adams gave Hibernian the lead midway through the first half and, with goalkeeper
Benedicte Haaland in excellent form, they held on until ten minutes from time, when Ciara Grant
equalised for Hearts from the penalty spot. The resulting 1-1 draw was the third time that the
clubs had shared the points this season, and means that Hearts stay eight points ahead of their
rivals in fourth place.
The other top flight game played over the weekend was in the bottom section, with
Spartans playing host to Hamilton Academical. Alana Marshall gave Spartans the lead, with
Eilidh Martin equalising three minutes later, and after Becky Galbraith had put the home side back
in front, the Accies hit back again through a Rachel Ross penalty to ensure the socline was level at
the interval. Marshall netted her second to
give Spartans the lead for the third time, in SWPL 1 P W D L F A Pts GD
the opening minute of the second half, and GLASGOW CITY 26 22 2 2 101 13 68 88
this time they went on to notch up a 4-2 CELTIC 26 21 3 2 103 7 66 96
victory, after a Megan Quinn own goal on RANGERS 26 20 5 5 1 8 99 7 65 92 7
35 28 44
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN
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the hour. The Accies remain in the bottom HIBERNIAN 26 10 6 10 49 40 36 9
two whilst Spartans narrowed the gap on PARTICK THISTLE 26 9 4 13 38 61 31 -23
Motherwell to two points. MOTHERWELL 26 10 8 8 39 43 38 -4
The title race in SWPL 2 seems to be SPARTANS WFC 26 10 6 10 28 43 36 -15
all over bar the shouting after leaders ABERDEEN 26 7 3 16 30 63 24 -33
Montrose scored five times without reply DUNDEE UTD 26 6 3 17 32 67 21 -35
away to Stirling University. Louise HAMILTON ACADEMICAL 26 5 1 20 26 84 16 -58
Brown was on target was on target twice, GLASGOW WOMEN 26 0 0 26 7 131 0 -124
with Lauren Gordon, London Pollard and
Holly Daniel adding the other goals for Hibernian 1 Hearts 1; Spartans 4 Hamilton 2.
Montrose who need to win one of their last
five matches to put themselves beyond the SWPL 2 P W D L F A Pts GD
reach of their rivals. Only Gartcairn MONTROSE 23 16 4 3 70 24 52 46
Women have any realistic chance for GARTCAIRN WOMEN 23 12 3 8 44 41 39 3
making a challenge to Montrose but their KILMARNOCK 23 10 7 6 33 23 37 10
hopes may well have been dealt a fatal blow ST JOHNSTONE 23 10 6 7 32 34 36 -2
after they were beaten 3-2 by Queen’s BOROUGHMUIR THISTLE 23 8 8 7 48 37 32 11
Park. Abby Callaghan, Ciara Bonner and QUEEN'S PARK 23 10 2 11 40 40 32 0
Eleanor Smith all got on the scoresheet for STIRLING UNIVERSITY 23 4 6 13 27 61 18 -34
the Spiders, who had trailed 2-1 at the EAST FIFE 23 1 6 16 22 56 9 -34
interval with Lauren Kerr and Ami
Robertson having netted for Cairn. Gartcairn 2 Queen’s Park 3; Stirling Univ 0 Montrose 6.
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