The young Dons, though, sit in 11^th position with only one draw to show for their efforts and only four goals scored to 17 against – one of those goals, though, came in a tight 2-1 away defeat to a high-flying Glasgow City side.

The Spaniard said: “They haven’t had a great start, I think last year they had a better start, but at some point it will pick up.

“They will start to gel, I like them as a team and I think they are well–drilled. They have a lot of energy. Although this year maybe in the last parts of games, maybe they are conceding far too many, but I think that’s pretty much psychological because they haven’t started great.

“But I still think they are a great threat, I think they will do very well this season and we have to be at our best to get the three points.”

Alonso, though, will select the best team for the day no matter what the table says. However, the attitude of the players in both games and training had given the boss the ultimate in selection headaches.

He said: “It’s a very good headache to have, that’s the part that I struggle the most with – how to pick players, how to be fair, how to reward hard work, but at the same time how to make sure we get the three points and keep playing at these high standards.

“So we will always try to rotate a little bit with the squad, maybe make one or two changes from the previous game if we can, and hopefully we will do the same thing this week, but we have to reward the girls who earned the position on the pitch, and because we only think about the next game, what happens the following week is always irrelevant.

“So I’m very happy with the squad, I’m very happy with the fight they have on the pitch and I’m very happy with everyone getting better. Every single player is getting better, they try to fight for a spot and they try for the team keeping this great momentum. I’m very happy with the squad and hopefully we’ll carry on working as we have until now.”

He knows, though, that there is still more to come from this team and that last week’s 6-0 scoreline could easily have challenged or overtaken the earlier 8-0 and 9-0 wins had the side been more clinical in front of goal.

He added: “There’s always room for improvement, especially after last week. I thought we played very well, we played almost the whole game in their half, which is very impressive because Hamilton are a good team.

“But, I thought our chance conversion wasn’t anywhere near our standards. I thought it was around 22 to 24 per cent, our average is 44 per cent so that was way below our season so far.

“So that is one of the focus points of this week, we have put a lot of emphasis on that, not only in training but also in analysis, we did analysis specifically about the final third.

“So hopefully we will see an improvement there. Hopefully we can convert most of our chances, hopefully we can have a lot of chances, but it won’t be easy because, as I said earier, they are good team, but we’ve got our own individual task and team task that we have to be better.

“So despite that so far we are winning and we haven’t conceded a goal, there is a lot of room for improvement and we try to be a little bit better each week, and so far that is working well.”

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