SWPL Match Summary: Glasgow City 5-0 Aberdeen

SWPL Match Summary: Glasgow City 5-0 Aberdeen

City returned to action following the international break with a 5-0 win in the ScottishPower Women's Premier League against Aberdeen at Petershill Park.

Goals late on in the first half from Nicole Kozlova and Sofia Määttä and second-half efforts from Lana Golob, Mebae Tanaka and Lisa Forrest saw us claim the three points and maintain our five-point lead at the top of the SWPL table.

Up next for City is another clash against the Dons, as they return to the Peasy next Sunday for a quarter-final clash in the Sky Sports Cup. Get your tickets for that match on Fanbase!

Match Action from Petershill

There were three changes from our last league win against Celtic a fortnight ago, with Chloe Warrington, Katie Lockwood and Emily Whelan introduced to the XI.

We would fashion the first opportunity and it came when Warrington carried the ball down the left flank, before pulling it back to Whelan, who saw her drive along the ground gathered by Dons goalkeeper Katie Cox.

That would be Whelan's last involvement in the game, as she was unfortunately forced off after picking up a knock, with Kozlova replacing her after 13 minutes.

After coming on, Kozlova picked out Määttä down the right, and her dangerous pass across the face of goal was diverted behind for a corner by defender Jessica Broadrick, before it could find the feet of an awaiting City shirt. 

At the other end, the visitors registered their first chance from a corner, with former City forward Kerry Beattie heading the ball goalwards, but she saw it comfortably gathered by goalkeeper Lee Gibson.

As we approached the halfway mark in the first half, we went close when Kozlova did well to turn her body and to get a shot away, yet, it flashed just wide of the post. 

But, it would be Aberdeen who hit the best opportunity of the first period. Francesca Ogilvie released a lofted curling strike which had to be pushed onto the bar by goalkeeper Gibson.

However, we took the lead five minutes before the break through Kozlova. After being played through one-v-one with the goalkeeper, Lockwood was denied by the visiting goalkeeper - in the initial shot and the rebound, before it fell to our No.19 who smashed it home for 1-0.

We doubled our lead with virtually the last kick off the first half when Natalia Wróbel played Määttä through, splitting the Aberdeen defence, and the latter buried it into the bottom corner.

In the second half, we started on the front foot, with Lockwood bursting forward before fizzing a strike wide of Cox's far post.

The visitors threatened with a free-kick whipped in by Abi Tobin and met by the head of Ogilvie, but her effort from inside the area failed to trouble Gibson in goal, as the ball dropped wide.

With 20 minutes left to go, goalkeeper Gibson was called into action, as she made a fantastic diving stop, getting down to push Bridget Galloway's strike away from goal. 

We got our third in the 75th minute when Golob did incredibly well to rotate her body and strike the ball on the volley, connecting with a free-kick sent in by Emma Brownlie down the right side.

We were not done yet as Tanaka, who had only just come on as a substitute, buried home the rebound after a scrappy move in the box inside the final ten minutes in Springburn.

City really weren't done as we netted our fifth in the 90th minute, with Forrest heading home a ball sent in by Kozlova, which did round off proceedings in this afternoon's match.

Full-time: Glasgow City 5-0 Aberdeen

Glasgow City goals: Kozlova 40, Määttä 45+2, Golob 75, Tanaka 81, Forrest 90

Glasgow City: Gibson; Evans (Brownlie), Smit, Golob, Warrington, Anderson, Lockwood, Wróbel (Boyes), Whelan (Kozlova), Määttä (Tanaka), Harrison (Forrest)

Subs not used: Clachers, Muir, Lauder, Motlhalo

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