Rangers Women underline title credentials with record win v Queens Park
Rangers recorded the biggest win of the Scottish Women’s Premier League season so far with a 14-0 demolition of Queens Park on Sunday.
Having not played since losing 3-0 to Hibernian on 22 December – the second of consecutive 3-0 defeats to close out the calendar year – Jo Potter’s side responded with aplomb, plundering goals at will.
That included a whopping 10 in the second half alone, with Katie Wilkinson denied a 12-minute hat-trick by her first strike going down as an own goal but still taking her personal tally to 24 this season.
Despite this, and despite having scored an astonishing 91 goals in just 18 games so far, the Light Blues remain second in the SWPL table, five points behind Glasgow City – who also beat them 3-0 last month.
Rangers Women provide perfect springboard in SWPL title race
Although they’ve still got a five-point gap to bridge to their local rivals at the summit – not quite the 15 by which the Gers’ men trail Celtic in the Premiership – wins of this magnitude show anything is possible.
Those back-to-back 3-0 losses are the only defeats Potter’s side have suffered this season, and given they’ve already got a +75 goal difference, the Light Blues are certainly capable of catching Glasgow City.
Few would deny that the rest of the Premier League – including the current leaders – will be spooked by Gers recording the biggest victory of the season so far, even though Queens Park sit second-bottom.
With Wilkinson also six clear of the chasing pack in the SWPL’s goalscoring charts, where team-mates Laura Berry and Rio Hardy also have 15 and 13 respectively, Potter’s team have goals in abundance.
Tougher tests against Celtic on 19 January and Spartans a week later are on the horizon, and after the Gers’ men thumped their Old Firm rivals 3-0 two weeks ago, the Women will be looking to follow suit.
In other Rangers news, a “very senior” Ibrox source has set out the board’s stall when it comes to Philippe Clement’s future.
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