Although she couldn’t grab her first goal for the club, Alonso was happy with the striker’s contributions and has no doubt she will soon be on the scoresheet.

“We were chasing the last game, so I didn’t know if it was maybe too early for Kit to come into the team,” he said. “But I thought she made a positive impact.

'She has a lot of pace and her acceleration is electric. During the week I felt like she did very well.'

“So today she broke into the team. I am happy for her, and now like every other position, team-mates who want to take her place will need to out-train her.

“We are happy because it’s another player that brings quality into the squad. Obviously we would have wanted to use Molli Plasmann too, but she has some issues with her injury.

“So we won’t be able to have her until next season. Kit is coming in to provide more strength that Molli couldn’t provide this year.

“I’m delighted that she is able to break into the team. I thought she had a good game. Unfortunately she didn’t get on the scoresheet but I’m sure she will before the end of the season."

Following the victory over Partick Thistle, the Hoops now have 13 days until their next fixture due to the international break.

The schedule will look slightly different for the coaching staff and the players. However, the manager insists that work will start now on the training ground in preparation for the next game.

He said: “We will start preparing for the next game from this week, but obviously we won’t have some of our international players.

“We should have much more out on international duty. I think especially in the Scotland squad, we should have more players.

“But for some reason they are not and this, in a way, benefits us because we can prepare tactically, and start our work on the next game. We’ve got two weeks for that.

'Maybe that will help us, we will see on game day. The players that are away totally deserve to be, we will be following and supporting them.'

“It will be a slightly different week, but it’s good for us as well because we will bring some players up from the Academy and that is an opportunity for us to see some academy players in action.”

Fran Alonso: I'm proud of squad's approach to Partick Thistle victory