Within the absence of Aston Villa defender Rachel Corsie, Weir captained Scotland in each of their two-legged play-off video games towards Hungary and Finland.
Whereas she was on the coronary heart of an excellent efficiency at Easter Highway within the semi-final second leg towards the Hungarians, she – and her team-mates – couldn’t replicate such magic towards 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 executed 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 evening.
Weir was left with an abundance of what if’s and can spend the summer season, 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 by way of a end result like that,” the previous Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis midfielder mentioned of final Tuesday’s recreation.
“I really discovered it exhausting to sleep after for fairly a couple of nights.
“It is hit loads of gamers very exhausting, for me undoubtedly, pondering, ‘what extra may I’ve executed?’ Ideas you actually do not wish to have, however that is occurred within the final week.
“I feel it is in all probability too quickly to say precisely the place [Scotland go from here].
“We now have to replicate, see the place it was we fell quick precisely. For me, it is nonetheless a bit bit too quickly to actually go into the main points, we now have to let it settle a bit bit.”
However 9 days on from yet 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.
