GLASGOW CITY maintained their 100% start to the season with a 2-1 victory over Celtic.

It was a far from vintage performance from the champions, leaving head coach Eddie Wolecki Black pleased with the win, but expecting a lot more from his players next Sunday when the two sides meet again in the League Cup semi-final.

He said: "Obviously we are delighted to get the three points, but it was a game we made hard for ourselves. Losing the goal gave Celtic a wee bit of hope and a match which was in our total control became a little bit more difficult.

"However, we saw it out and I hope the girls are going to learn from this as the exact same thing happened against Aberdeen a few weeks ago. It will definitely be something we will look at and speak to the players about over the next few days.

"A big concern is the injury to Alyshia Walker, so we hope that turns out to be a minor thing. Obviously we play Celtic again next weekend, and I am very hopeful it will be a different City team they face that day.

"We will have a full week of training to prepare, which will help as it wasn't easy playing Spartans midweek and then Celtic today, two potential top-four sides within four days, so I am looking for a far better performance next week."

City opened the scoring when Emily McKerlie turned the ball into her own net, before skipper Leanne Ross was denied by a brilliant save from Laura Hamilton.

Abbi Grant's superb strike came off the crossbar before City made it 2-0 after Hayley Lauder capitalised on an error by Hamilton.

Celtic came more into the match in the second half, and Kirstin McGuire fired past City keeper Lee Alexander with less than 15 minutes remaining, but they struggled to carve out any real scoring opportunities in the remaining final minutes.

City introduced Walker with 10 minutes left, but the forward lasted only four minutes before having to go off injured after a collision with Celtic's Chloe Craig.

After missing all of last season with a knee injury, City hope Walker returns to action as soon as possible.

Results:

Celtic 1 Glasgow City 2, Stirling University 3 Hearts 3, Inverness 0 Rangers 6, Aberdeen 3 Hutchison Vale 3, Hibernian 7 Forfar 2, Farmington Hamilton Accies 0 Spartans 2.