SWPL: Celtic, Rangers and Hibs keep up winning starts and City beat Hearts

Celtic, Rangers, and Hibs all kept up their 100% winning starts to the SWPL season with big victories on Wednesday night.

The champions brushed Motherwell aside with a 5-1 win at the Excelsior Stadium thanks to goals from Saoirse Noonan, Lucy Ashworth-Clifford, Amy Gallacher, Murphy Agnew and Maria McAneny.

Morgan Cross grabbed a consolation for the visitors.

Rangers continued their impressive start to the campaign by scoring another nine goals that takes their tally to 24 in the opening three league games and they are also yet to concede.

They beat Queen’s Park 9-0 at Broadwood to go top of the table on goal difference following their 11-0 opening day rout of Aberdeen and 4-0 win over Partick Thistle at the weekend.

Kirsty Howat, Chelsea Cornet, Brogan Hay and Kathy Hill were all on the scoresheet with Hannah Cunningham rounding off a miserable night for the Spiders with a late own-goal in injury time.

Hibs also made it three wins out of three as they keep early pace with the big two thanks to a 6-0 win over Dundee United after five first-half goals at Meadowbank Stadium.

Linzi Taylor and Eilidh Adams both hit a brace with Mya Christie and Kathleen McGovern also on the scoresheet.

Glasgow City beat Hearts K-Park despite playing the full second half with ten players after a sending-off in first-half injury time.

Amy Muir put the home side ahead before Kim Smith was shown a red card two minutes later for a foul in the box and Lisa Robertson equalised from the resulting penalty.

Just as it looked as though the game was heading for a draw Sofia Maata bagged the winner with five minutes remaining to give City all three points.

Elsewhere Aberdeen got their first win of the season with a 2-0 win over Montrose in their first game under caretaker manager Stuart Glennie following the departure of Colin Bell after only two games in charge.

And Partick Thistle also got their first three points on the board with a 2-1 away win over Spartans.