Women's Scottish Cup final: Glasgow City v Rangers
When: Sunday 25 May Where: Hampden Park, Glasgow Kick-off: 14:00 BST
Coverage: Watch unrecorded connected BBC One Scotland and BBC Sport website & app
One could telephone it the Consolation Cup final. Neither Glasgow City oregon Rangers would convey you for it though.
Both teams had their eyes connected the eventual prize – the SWPL league title, but Hibernian bushed them to it.
That stroke was cushioned for City, who finished 2nd to gain a spot successful Champions League qualifying. No specified reward for Rangers successful third.
Yet a Scottish Cup triumph for Rangers astatine Hampden connected Sunday would unafraid a 2nd successive cupful double. No mean feat.
A trophy and a Champions League spot would, by astir metrics, beryllium judged a bully play for City.
"This nine is synonymous with lifting trophies," said City caput manager Leanne Ross. "It's thing that we pridefulness ourselves connected successful presumption of being successful the past stages of competitions and being up determination warring close until the end. So, of course, immoderate trophy assistance is special.
"The Scottish Cup successful itself is simply a peculiar competition, particularly to the Scottish players and staff. It's thing that we've grown up with and the information that we're present capable to play astatine the nationalist stadium arsenic good conscionable adds a small spot much excitement."
Ross acknowledges some teams volition beryllium "very disappointed" aft missing retired connected the rubric to astonishment victors Hibs.
"It was a choky combat betwixt each the teams successful that apical fractional of the table," she said. "It was a hard play and evidently neither of america person reached the nonsubjective of winning the title.
"The adjacent champion happening for america was evidently that 2nd spot and guaranteed European football. So, yes, we've travel retired connected apical there. But there's inactive disappointment wrong our camp."
Having spent galore hours pouring implicit footage of the 1-0 decision by Hibs astatine Ibrox that yet scuppered Rangers' title bid, caput manager Jo Potter says looking guardant to the last has saved them from what would person been an "horrendous week".
Potter explained: "We can't marque up for what happened successful the league. We don't shy distant from that. Yes, determination was a large trophy connected the enactment and we didn't negociate to crook up and get that 1 implicit the line.
"If we'd person won a treble, I'd person said that would person been unreal, It would person been retired of this world. We were truthful close, but it wasn't meant to be. So we've got to marque definite that we're going aft a cupful double. We've got 3 trophies successful nether 2 years close now, and we privation different one.
"Switching our mindset from the agony of decision and losing a league rubric to effort and spell connected and triumph different cupful last is nighttime and day."
Although Rangers bushed Hibs convincingly successful the Sky Sports Cup final, Potter admits her broadside person underperformed successful different large matches this season.
"Last play our head-to-heads against our rivals wasn't a problem," she said. "We fto ourselves down successful different games, This twelvemonth it's been the implicit opposite.
"We can't play against Hibs 4 times successful the league and lone people 1 extremity and get 1 constituent from those 4 games. That's wherever we fell short."
City, who won this tourney 7 times betwixt 2009 and 2019, edged the head-to-head with Rangers successful the league this play with 2 wins to Rangers one, the different crippled being a draw.
Ross is not speechmaking excessively overmuch into the stats though different than to foretell an enthralling finale to the season.
"It's 2 teams that similar to play football," she said. "We cognize it's going to beryllium connected a monolithic transportation with a large ambiance and I deliberation the spectators are successful for a truly competitory game."
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