Within the absence of Aston Villa defender Rachel Corsie, Weir captained Scotland in each of their two-legged play-off video games in opposition to Hungary and Finland.
Whereas she was on the coronary heart of an excellent efficiency at Easter Highway within the semi-final second leg in opposition to the Hungarians, she – and her team-mates – couldn’t replicate such magic in opposition to the Finns and sparingly troubled their objective.
A flat efficiency within the freezing Finnish capital meant that by the point the Scots began to show the screw ever so slowly, the harm had been achieved by two first-half objectives.
When the full-time whistle whirled around the Bolt Enviornment, the Scotland gamers sunk to deck and stared deep into the night time.
Weir was left with an abundance of what if’s and can spend the summer time, as soon as extra, on the couch, watching a lot of her club-mates hit the largest stage in Switzerland.
“I’ve in all probability discovered it one of many tougher occasions in my profession when it comes to a outcome like that,” the previous Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis midfielder stated of final Tuesday’s recreation.
“I really discovered it laborious to sleep after for fairly a couple of nights.
“It is hit quite a lot of gamers very laborious, for me positively, pondering, ‘what extra might I’ve achieved?’ Ideas you actually do not need to have, however that is occurred within the final week.
“I believe it is in all probability too quickly to say precisely the place [Scotland go from here].
“We’ve to mirror, see the place it was we fell quick precisely. For me, it is nonetheless just a little bit too quickly to essentially go into the main points, we now have to let it settle just a little bit.”
However 9 days on from one more disappointment, Weir won’t have been the one one struggling sleepless nights because the restlessness rises among the many assist on the radio silence.
