Five goals before Hearts woke up
Falkirk ended Hearts’ unbeaten home league record at Tynecastle on Sunday with a 5-2 win that sends them into third place in the Scottish Premiership. Hearts had not lost a league game there since April 2025.
Finley Barbrook scored after four minutes and Owen Eames doubled the lead on 17. Jacob Murrell made it three on 33 minutes, Liam Henderson struck in first-half stoppage time, and Murrell added his second two minutes after the restart. Five goals up, the Bairns had finished the contest as a contest.
Hearts replied through substitute Sabri Guendouz on 50 minutes and a Claudio Braga penalty on 75, which only dressed up the scoreline.
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A bad week for Hearts, a good run for Falkirk
Wouter Vrancken’s side were without 11 players through injury and lost another in the second half when Malachi Fagan-Walcott limped off. They had made two changes from the team beaten by Thun in the Conference League on Thursday, and they have now won two of their last 11 matches.
Falkirk have no such worries. It is five top-flight wins in a row, something the club had not managed since 1995, and they now sit one point above Hearts. John McGlynn, named manager of the month for October, had to replace the injured Ryan Strain at right-back with Jack McMillan after last Sunday’s win over Celtic, and the change cost him nothing.
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