Celtic 3-1 Glasgow City: Hosts win in front of record crowd to close in on SWPL leaders

Natasha Flint drew Celtic level against Glasgow City

Celtic produced a celebrated triumph implicit Glasgow City successful beforehand of a grounds assemblage of 9,553 astatine Celtic Park to support their SWPL rubric hopes alive.

Lauren Davidson had silenced a large and vociferous assemblage aboriginal connected with a neat decorativeness from adjacent range.

Natasha Flint's rasping thrust levelled, earlier Claire O'Riordan's header turned the crippled astir and Kit Loferski finished it disconnected with a driving tally and finish.

It means a three-horse contention for the rubric continues with 2 games to go, with Rangers and City going head-to-head connected the last time of the play adjacent Sunday.

Celtic's superior extremity quality whitethorn good beryllium to beryllium the quality successful the conflict for the league flag.

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A large lucifer deserved a large juncture and it surely was 1 with Celtic's accustomed location of Airdrie swapped for Celtic Park. Thousands of Celtic's ultras provided a thumping and hostile soundtrack down the goal.

However, it was City's tiny set of supporters astatine the different extremity of the stadium who were celebrating erstwhile Davidson weaved her mode done the Celtic defence and struck aft 20 minutes.

It was a deserved pb for the league leaders, who had already fired warnings done a Davidson header and a Priscilla Chinchilla changeable wide.

Amy Gallacher, Flint and Jacynta each failed to deed the people arsenic Celtic tried to rally.

And the location broadside passed up a glorious accidental 8 minutes into the 2nd fractional erstwhile City goalkeeper weakly punched a Jacynta free-kick, but some Flint and Caitlin Hayes could not find the net.

Goalkeeper Pamela Tajonar kept Celtic successful the crippled erstwhile she tipped Anna Oskarsson's header astir the post.

The nighttime was not going Celtic's way, but that infinitesimal proved to beryllium a immense turning constituent arsenic abruptly Fran Alonso's broadside recovered different gear.

From extracurricular the box, Flint lashed a right-foot changeable debased into the country done the fingers of Lee Gibson to gully Celtic level.

Suddenly City were connected borderline arsenic the sound levels rose. Loferski and Flint some forced Gibson into saves and the changeless unit would not fto up.

The hosts got their reward erstwhile O'Riordan's header from a country deflected into the net.

And it was 3 erstwhile Loferski outpaced the City defence and calmly knocked the shot past Gibson.

A 4th conscionable eluded Celtic erstwhile Flint headed disconnected the crossbar and Gibson scrambled to propulsion distant the rebound.

Celtic question to Hibernian connected Sunday (13:10 BST), Glasgow City are astatine location to Partick Thistle (16:10) and defending champions Rangers are distant to Hearts (15:00). The pursuing week, Celtic big Hearts portion City sojourn Rangers.