SCOTTISH BUILDING women SOCIETY SWPL1 SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 2019 CELTIC KICK-OFF 2PM GLASGOW CITY FROM A NOTE THE MANAGER Good afternoon and welcome to K-Park for the final time this season as we welcome Glasgow “ City for our last home game of 2019. I would like We will approach to welcome City players, staff and supporters and congratulate them on their recent title win. our final three Last weekend we sealed a fantastic 3–0 win over our Glasgow “ Derby rivals Rangers to make it three wins out of three against games full of intent them this season. Despite the score being 0–0 at half-time, I knew if we continued to press the way we did, would finish the game off, and we did. I was obviously delighted with the goals and three different scorers. GLASGOW CITY We’re not dependent on any one player in PROFILED the squad, which I’m very happy with and the Recently-crowned champions Glasgow City travel to K-Park to face Eddie Wolecki Black’s side for the fifth cleansheet gives the whole team confidence, time this season, and their third and final meeting especially off the back of our 5-0 win here in the SWPL1. over Motherwell the week before. So far in the league this season, the two sides have only been separated by a single goal with the first match at Lennoxtown finishing 2–1 to the visitors before City claimed a narrow 1–0 victory in the reverse. Despite this, Glasgow City came out 2–0 winners in the most recent Our games against City have been getting closer and closer fixture, seeing Booth’s side head into the Scottish Cup since I first took over, with our last league meeting ending in semi-finals, leaving Celtic determined to keep all three a narrow 1–0 loss at Petershill Park. Before that, we narrowly points in East Kilbride today. lost out 2–1 at Lennoxtown despite taking the lead. We’re well aware of what we’re up against this time round and it’ll be a tough challenge, but we have players who believe MANAGER: SCOTT BOOTH we can beat them, and City now know we can pose a threat. HOME GROUND: PETERSHILL PARK I would like to thank you once again for your support today and from across the season. We will approach our final three games full of intent, and I hope you enjoy the game today. Thanks, LAST MEETING SCOTTISH CUP CELTIC 0–2 GLASGOW CITY LAST 5 CELTIC – LLAWW Eddie Wolecki Black STIRLING UNI – WWWWW Manager, Celtic FC Women CAPTAIN’S COMMENTS Welcome to our final home game of 2019. Since the international break we’ve produced two good team performances resulting in two wins. It’s mathematically impossible for the teams below us to catch us and we have already reached 40 points for the first time since 2012, but we don’t want to just settle for that, there are still three KAT SMART: EVERYONE IS games to play and anything can happen. We go into these last three games with the aim of another CAPABLE OF SCORING three good performances starting with Glasgow City Having matched last season’s points capture and bettered this Sunday. their goals tally with four games to go, Kat Smart says the goals they have across the park is an invaluable The league games between ourselves and Glasgow weapon in their arsenal. City have all been close this season, but City are champions for a reason. We go into the game “Everyone on the team is capable of scoring. You couldn’t believing we can cause an upset but also with pick out someone who can’t, so it’s good to have that full respect for our opposition. In what has been versatility and it keeps the opposition guessing as to a broken up season we have managed to gain some who the ball will go to and who can score,” she told. momentum and we will be looking to take that into Sunday after a focussed week of preparation. “I found it disappointing at the Spartans game to be going in 0–0 at half-time, so it was good to come back to scoring As always, thanks for your support and thank you ways. We obviously scored seven against Forfar not long for your support across the season. before the break, so five goals is a good take and we’ve scored more than last season, as well as having matched Thanks, the points total. Kelly “It’s good to have that cushion with four games still to go.” EMMA CRAIG DISCUSSES STEP UP TO FIRST TEAM Having moved up to Eddie Wolecki Black’s first team squad for the last couple of games before the summer break, 18-year-old midfielder Emma Craig has retained her place in the mix, but she knows there’s a lot of hard work still to be done. “It’s a big step up, so you have to raise your game,” she began, “I’m waiting for any opportunity to come and I’m taking them when I can.” “It’s nice to be recognised by Eddie and the other coaches so it’s obviously boosting my confidence, but I’m taking it as it comes while being excited about where it could go. “The pace and physicality are probably the biggest difference. The game against Hibs was really hard and obviously it didn’t go how we wanted it to, but it just shows how big the difference is. It’s just adapting to that and hopefully I’ll get to that standard in time,” she said. 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