RANGERS are firmly on course for a first-ever SWPL 1 title after beating defending champions Glasgow City 3-1 at the club's training centre ground. They are two points ahead of City and four clear of Celtic, and have played a game less than both.
City, who gave a debut to new American signing Peyton Perea, seemed to be offered a lifeline when Rangers goalkeeper Jenna Fife was sent off midway through the second half with the score at 2-0. But even with ten players the home side remained in control.
“Before the game we asked the players to really put their heart and souls into the game and they did that,” Rangers head coach Malky Thomson said. “In previous games we've had maybe five, six players playing well, but today we had eleven playing for each other.”
Rangers took the lead after 13 minutes. Lizzie Arnot was given acres of room after receiving the ball from Tessel Middag and she beat Lee Alexander with a superb left foot strike into the far corner from 25 yards.
City went two down just after the half hour. Irish midfielder Niamh Farrelly headed the equaliser in the earlier 1-1 draw between the sides but this time it was an own goal following an Arnot corner.
Despite Fife's sending off after 67 minutes, when she ran out of her area and bought down Ode Fulutudilo, it was Rangers who scored again. The outstanding Arnot crossed from the right and Jane Ross sent a downward header beyond Alexander.
Celtic moved to within two points of City with a 2-0 win over Spartans at Ainslie Park. Goals from Maria Olafsdottir Gros and Clarissa Larisey ensured the win.
Hamilton are now six points adrift after losing 1-0 at home to second bottom Partick Thistle. Aberdeen had their best win of the season, beating fourth place Hibernian at Balmoral Stadium, and in the day's other game Hearts beat Motherwell 1-0.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel