Celtic FC Women travel to Broadwood Stadium this May Day Monday holiday to take on Rangers in a game that will have a massive bearing on the outcome of this season’s title challenge for the Ghirls.

There is a points’ deadlock at the top of the table, with the Hoops and their Ibrox counterparts tied on 72 points going into the clash, but the Celts have a comfy cushion of being 13 goals better off.

At the beginning of the week, the pressure was on following a defeat to Rangers at Hampden in the Scottish Cup semi-final, but the Hoops came out fighting in midweek against Glasgow City in the league and a bounce-back performance merited more than the single point the 2-2 draw produced.

Hoops midfielder, Natalie Ross said on looking back at the semi-final: “When we finished on Saturday it was disappointing, of course, in the way we lost it, the way we performed, but for me that game is done.

‘Now we just focus on the next game and we need to beat Rangers. We are in a good positons and I’m confident going into that game.’

“We need to beat the top teams, we need to play the top teams to win the league, so whenever we play them and the next game is Rangers, the focus is on Rangers.

“We know what it takes to beat them, we can beat them and we had a great performance against Glasgow City.

“We dominated the game, we probably should have got more out of it, but it was a very strong performance going into Monday’s game.”

Natalie Ross: Celts head into derby on back of confident display