Hibs’ reward for their Saturday evening victory over Apollon Ladies is a glamour draw against Inter Milan while Glasgow City have been paired with Irish side Athlone Town in the newly created Women’s Europa Cup.
Given the UEFA restrictions around the game, Hibs will play the home tie at Easter Road with Grant Scott confident that the Leith support will turn out to offer their backing to his side.
“I couldn’t be prouder of the players to have put us into this position,” he said.
“There is so much positivity around the club as a whole. The home leg is going to played at Easter Road and this group deserves to be playing that game in front of a good crowd.
“They are a fantastic group who give it everything every time.”
Meanwhile, Celtic maintained their perfect start to the SWPL with a thumping 7-0 win over Partick Thistle yesterday afternoon.
It makes it three wins out of three for Elena Sadiku with the Swede insisting that there is still more to come from the Parkhead side.
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It tees them up for next Sunday’s game against Rangers with Sadiku satisfied that her side go into that one with the wind at their backs.
Celtic go into that one two points clear of Rangers and top of the table, albeit that City and Hibs have games in hand after their European exertions this week.
“The confidence is building and relations between the players are getting stronger,” she said. “I said to the players after the game that I am proud of how strong the team is getting and we need to build on that.
“We are looking ahead. We want to make sure that everyone wants to be a part of this journey and supporting each other.
“I was very pleased with many things – how we attacked, how well we defended and every time we lost the ball we were trying to win it back.
“We made changes and put players in different positions and everyone knew what to do and what their role was so I am very pleased.
“We are moving forward every week.
“But we aren’t happy, we want to keep going and keep getting better. We showed that in the second-half where we kept going and wanted more.
“We are playing to everyone’s strengths. They are executing the ideas really well.”
Leanne Crichton’s Rangers beat Motherwell 2-1. Brogan Hay and Kirsty Howat had given the Ibrox side the lead before Carla Boyce pulled a goal back for the visitors to make it a bit more anxious than it might have been.
Scott Booth’s Aberdeen got their first win of the season with a 2-0 win over Montrose.
The Dons scored either side of each half with goals from Toni Leigh Finnegan and Alex Clarke claiming the goals.
Hearts took the spoils against Hamilton Accies with a 2-0 win with new signing Carly Johns netting her first goal for the club before Georgia Timms doubled Hearts’ lead.
