Scott: No Excuses For Loss

Grant Scott claims there are “no excuses” to be told following Hibs Women’s 3-0 loss to Glasgow City despite the game remaining competitive throughout.

Emily Whelan opened the scoring for the home team inside 60 seconds, before late Sophia Maatta and Rammie Noel wrapped up three points for City.

Speaking to Hibs TV, Scott states that he offers “no excuses” on his side’s performance after failing to turn the game around after the extremely early setback.

“I’m struggling to reflect today. Once again it is disappointing that I don’t think we have got to our performance levels. Now, we can give credit to Glasgow City for that. They were very purposeful in their work today. But I’m disappointed we didn’t get to those levels.

“It’s an opportunity for us to come here and play against a good team. We’ve not done that and let ourselves down a little bit today. It’s one of those moments. We will reflect on it, take learnings from it and move on very quickly.

“We know the venue, it’s not changed all that much. But sometimes you come up against an opponent who is very dominant on the day. We just couldn’t fight our way into the match as we would’ve liked to. No excuses.”

Whelan found the net inside the first minute after slack play in defence allowed the attacker clear sight at goal from range.

“The timing of the goal is ridiculous,” said Scott on the deflating opener. “It’s a mistake, I don’t have to go off at the players because they know they should do better in those moments.

“Against that quality of opponent, it gives you a real task to get back into the game — you’re then chasing and they can control the tempo a bit better."

While Scott was disappointed by certain aspects of the match, he admits there was not too much wrong with the team's structure and that the a positive result remained in reach until the latter stages.

“I didn’t feel that we were under a massive amount of pressure. Territorially, the ball was in our half more certainly. But we didn’t get cut open too much.

"The game was competitive and I felt we were in it for long spells.”