'We could have done better': Glasgow City lament 9-1 Champions League defeat

Glasgow City manager Laura Montgomery showed some typical understatement in assessing her team's performance in their Champions League quarter-final defeat to Wolfsburg.

"There are many things we could have done better," she said. Having gone into the break 4-0 down before eventually succumbing 9-1, she's not wrong.

When the draw was made last year, Glasgow could have expected a tough time. But the intervening months of Covid crisis have hardly helped preparations.

The Scottish champions had to rely on donations from friendly investors just to get to the game in northern Spain. It was their first match in five months whereas Wolfsburg enjoy the sort of funding and professionalism barely matched by most of men's football in Scotland.

"They're a top-quality outfit, the difference is astronomical," Montgomery continued. "Wolfsburg's budget will be bigger than every SPFL team outwith Rangers and Celtic in the men's league."

 That budget is believed to be £10 million a year, the kind of investment which has seen the German giants twice crowned champions of Europe.

They will now play Barcelona on Tuesday in the semi-finals. Glasgow City return home pondering how to turn dominance in Scotland into a fighting chance on the wider stage.