Same old story for Scotland, laments 'frustrated' Gibson

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2 days ago

"You don't ever want to keep coming out and saying, we've done really well, we've tried hard, but we're fallen short again."That's just the reality of where we're at, at the moment."For someone who made save after save on Friday night, Lee Gibson pulled no punches in the post-match press conference.The Scotland shotstopper kept her country in their penultimate Nations League A match against Austria, but she was left helpless when a front-post flick from Julia Hickelsberger broke the deadlock.That sole goal, in Melissa Andreatta's first game in the Scotland dugout, confirmed relegation to League B, too.It was an all too familiar story for the Scots who suffered a six successive defeat, and Gibson has grown tired of the tale."It's took us 60 minutes to actually properly open up Austria, that's the disappointing thing." the Glasgow City goalkeeper said."You just want that to happen a little bit earlier. That's up to us as players to recognise that and change things in the game, but it was too little, too late unfortunately."That's probably the same thing that we've been saying over the last year or so in these games when we play against top opponents, that we've not been able to be consistent enough. "It's frustrating. You don't ever want to keep coming out and saying, we've done really well, we've tried hard, but we're fallen short again."That's just the reality of where we're at, at the moment. "I think other teams have improved and they've raised their levels. We maybe haven't made those strides forward that we wanted to or we feel we deserve."But as players and coaching staff and everybody behind the scenes, it's up to us to be able to try and change that. "That's hopefully something that under Mel we can take strides in doing."