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The 19-year-old forward came on from the bench in the 78th minute but was stretchered off in injury time after lengthy treatment to her shoulder.

“I don’t know if it is her collar bone or shoulder but it looks like a dislocation,” said McCulloch. “She didn’t fall on it, she was pulled. She’ll go to hospital and get it assessed. Hopefully it will be a dislocation and it pops back in. Fingers crossed.”

The injury was a disappointing end to a frustrating afternoon for Spartans, who were forced to defend for large parts of the game. Charlie Wellings goals in 18 and 53 minutes put the visitors two up and although Sarah Clelland pulled one back, Clarissa Larisey grabbed Celtic’s third just a few minutes later.

“I felt defensively, even though we lost three goals, we were pretty good,” McCulloch told the Edinburgh Evening News. “But Celtic catch you in transition and we were out of shape and gave the ball away cheaply for two of the goals, so that is frustrating.”

Her other frustration was Celtic’s sucker-punch counter strike just minutes after Spartans had swept forward on the counter-attack to carve the visitors apart and make it 2-1 midway through the second half.

Left-back Simone McMahon made the break from her own box before releasing Caley Gibb on the touchline to surge forward, cut in and find Clelland joining the attack from the opposite flank. The substitute controlled beautifully on the corner of the box before driving a low shot sweetly into the far corner. It was a brilliant goal, but there just were not enough of them.

McCulloch added: “I definitely felt we deserved our goal and I would liked it to have been 2-1 for longer to see if we could really push them. We could have created more, but lacked a bit of composure.”

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