She Kicks Magazine
·8 August 2022
She Kicks Magazine
·8 August 2022
Jacynta Galabadaarachchi hit a hat-trick for Celtic. (Photo by Alex Todd/SPP)
Last season’s top three in the Scottish Women’s Premier League all posted large victories at the start of the new campaign.
SWPL 1
Glasgow City 7-0 Spartans Hearts 3-1 Partick Thistle Dundee United 1-1 Motherwell Hamilton Academical 3-1 Aberdeen Rangers 14-0 Glasgow Women Celtic 9-0 Hibernian
SWPL 2
Boroughmuir Thistle 3-5 Kilmarnock Gartcairn 4-1 East Fife Montrose 5-0 Stirling University St Johnstone 2-1 Queen’s Park
Rangers walloped promoted Glasgow Women with 10 different goalscorers, Celtic’s Jacynta Galabadaarachchi and Clarissa Larisey hit hat-tricks against Hibernian who had Siobhan Hunter sent off late on, Clare Shine got three of Glasgow City’s 7-0 result.
Hamilton beat Aberdeen 3-1, Josephine Giard and Olivia Potter on target after the Dons levelled.
Hearts’ Georgia Timms netted three times following Partick scoring first, while Danni McGinley gave Dundee United the lead but Kaela McDonald-Nguah equalised from the spot.
There were winning SWPL2 debuts for Gartcairn and Montrose over East Fife and Stirling University respectively, St Johnstone fought back to edge Queen’s Park,while Kilmarnock won a high-scoring game at Boroughmuir.