The manager was particularly impressed with his sides second-half performance.
“For 45 minutes we were dominant. For the first forty-five City were probably more dominant, but I thought we were more in control for the second half. I thought we did better in the second half than they did in the first half.”
“For the first ten minutes, they caused us a few problems, but we got to grips with it. We were asking players to do things they’d never done before, and at half-time, we could see there were things they were struggling with. We fixed and tweaked it, and you see the impact that had on the second half.”
“We’ve come here with a limited squad, they’ve got Scotland internationals on the bench, they can make changes whenever they want – but whatever they did we had an answer tonight. It’s a really good performance. That was a Hibs team tonight.”
After losing two goals in the first half, the manager was pleased with how his players reacted at half-time.
“The players were fuming that they were two-nil down. I don’t think we deserved to be winning the game at half-time, but two-nil wasn’t a fair reflection at that point. Both goals were soft goals… but when you react like that at half-time and you play like we did in the second half, it maybe just took forty-five minutes to get the style of play into the players.”
Defender, Siobhan Hunter was on the scoresheet netting her 50th goal for Hibernian, Gibson was pleased with her leadership and overall performance in the backline.
“She was excellent. She led by example. Having two teenagers on either side of her, Poppy Lawson and Lucy Parry. She had to be a leader tonight. We know what we’re going to get from Shiv, she wears her heart on her sleeve, she cares, and she set a standard tonight that she needs to maintain until the end of the season.”
Gibson also believed the injury picked up by Shannon Leishman wasn’t too serious.
“It’ll probably be sore tomorrow, and we’ll see how she is. We can’t afford another injury, or we will struggle to get a team on the pitch, but Shannon is a fighter and she’ll get through it.”
Hibs Women return to Meadowbank where they will face Rangers on Sunday. Gibson believes that there are plenty of positives to take from the performance.
“They need to take belief that the information we’re giving them is the right information, and I think they realised that tonight. Rangers are a different opposition to Glasgow City, but we’ll take a lot of belief, confidence, and desire from tonight.”
