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25-05-2025
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Rangers put league disappointment behind them with comfortable final success
Rangers eased league disappointment with an emphatic 3-0 Scottish Gas Women's Scottish Cup final win over Glasgow City. Jo Potter's side lost the SWPL title race to Hibernian with a defeat by Hibs on the final day of the season last week but they showed their resilience at Hampden Park to retain the trophy. Mia McAulay opened the scoring after 25 minutes before fellow attacker Kirsty Howat doubled that lead 13 minutes later and then grabbed her second five minutes after the restart. City defender Sam Van Diemen was sent off in the 79th minute for denying substitute Camille Lafaix a goalscoring opportunity by hauling her back but the game was gone by then with the Sky Sports Cup winners assured of a cup double. The woodwork saw plenty of action in the early stages of the game. McAulay struck the post in the 12th minute with a drive which beat City goalkeeper Lee Gibson and five minutes later Rangers defender Kathy Hill headed a free-kick on to the bar and over. Moments later, at the other end, City's Natalia Wrobel crashed a shot off the crossbar from the edge of the box. However, when 18-year-old McAulay got another opportunity outside the box on a swift counter, she drilled a shot into the far corner of the net. McAulay provided the assist for the second goal, floating a cross into Howat who turned neatly away from Van Diemen before firing low past Gibson, who moments later prevented a third when she blocked a shot from McAulay who had broken free of the City back line. It was a healthy interval cushion for Rangers, who lost captain Nicola Docherty to injury just after the first goal. City were again caught with a through-ball after 50 minutes which left Chelsea Cornet able to roll the ball across goal for Howat to tap into an empty net from close range. In the 70th minute City's Nicole Kozlova somehow missed the target with only Gers keeper Jenna Fife to beat while McAulay missed a chance for her second after being set up by Howat. Van Diemen's dismissal, after referee Dan McFarlane was called by VAR to check his pitchside monitor after initially flashing a yellow, completed a miserable day for City, while 35-year-old striker Jane Ross came on as a late substitute for Rangers in her last game of a stellar career. Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
STV News
22-05-2025
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Potter wants ‘change in mindset' from Rangers ahead of Scottish Cup final
Jo Potter believes this week would have been 'horrendous' for Rangers had they not had the Scottish Gas Women's Scottish Cup final against Glasgow City at Hampden Park on Sunday. Dreams of a treble for the Sky Sports Cup holders were ended on the final day of the SWPL season as Linzi Taylor's goal secured a first title for Hibernian in 18 years and dropped Rangers into third spot and out of the Champions League places. Gers boss Potter told her stunned squad that they cannot 'sulk' on the back of the bitter disappointment as they look to finish the campaign with a cup double. Speaking at the national stadium, she said: 'You've got to change your mindset, coming off the back of a massive loss at the weekend. 'You come crashing down and we've got to change mindset very quickly. 'We've got to make sure that we we're changing our focus onto another game because we've got a cup final. 'If I'm talking about changing mindset this week and bouncing back, we can't sulk and we can't dwell too much on that loss. 'If we didn't have a cup final this week, this week would have been horrendous for us. 'But we've managed to get ourselves in a cup final and switching our mindset from the agony of defeat and losing a league title to try and go on and win another cup final is night and day. 'So we've got to make sure we're changing our mindset very, very quickly. 'I've had to do that for myself, personally as well. 'I needed to make sure I did that first and foremost. I looked back at everything that we could have done, that we didn't do potentially or we could have done differently. 'And then we've got to move on very quickly for the players. I come secondary to the players, what they need is first and foremost. So I've got to be in the right mindset for them. 'If I'm not in the right mindset, I can't expect the players to be. So I've got to give off the right energy and send the right messages and that's exactly what I believe in. 'So we've got to change, we've got to make sure we're better and we've got to show a little bit of fight this Sunday.' Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
