City deflated by comeback
Glasgow City lost 3-2 away to Hibernian today Sunday), in a game that City literally threw away.
Keen to make up for their early cup exit at the hands of the home side a few weeks ago, City started the game very strongly and dominated the first half. Donna Shaw opened the scoring for City when she latched onto a free kick to direct her header into the corner of the net. City pressed Hibs for the entire first half, with Suzanne Lappin and Katharina Lindner coming within inches of increasing City’s lead.
With half time approaching, City got their deserved second goal when Hibernian were caught out at another set-piece, this time with Lappin getting her head to a City corner and putting the ball past Gemma Faye in goals.
With the game won, City tried to take the sting out of the match in the second half, but some crucial errors let Hibs back into the game. Hibs hit back on 65 minutes, when Joelle Murray was allowed to run 20 yards unchallenged before hitting a good shot into the top corner of the City net from outside the box. Murray’s goal was the lift the home side needed and they went on to capitalise on more City errors to finally win the match.
Suzanne Grant equalised when she was left unmarked inside the box to easily stroke her shot past the helpless Angie Livingston in the City goals. Hibs then cruelly hit the winner, when Grant again found herself completely unmarked, this time in the six yard box following a corner.
With time running out, the game was now beyond City. In the first half the game was more than won, but yet three moments of lack of concentration allowed Hibs to steal the win.
City boss Peter Caulfield said, “This was a hard day. The girls were excellent in the first half. We played superbly and they were never in it. We started the second half well and they created little. However, we never closed down the shot from Murray and that gave them the lift they needed and unfortunately a few of our players heads went down at that point. We have definitely improved from our last performance and we can build on this. This was a tough lesson, but one we will learn from.”
04.11.07
