Dunfermline manager Neil Lennon: “I thought we were great. It was attritional but we had the better chances. You could tell the pitch and the occasion was getting to both sets of players.<\/p>\n
“It’s a hell of an achievement for the club. These players have covered themselves in glory all the way through this and now we have one to go.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t told the players the bad news yet – they are in tomorrow for recovery. The one thing about this lot is they can fall off a cliff quickly, but they are talented and it’s so exciting.<\/p>\n
“What this will do for them and the city – I’m lost for words.”<\/p>\n
Dunfermline goalkeeper Aston Oxborough: “These are moments you dream of. I thought we were comfortable in our shape and it was a brilliant shift from the lads.<\/p>\n
“There’s lots to play for. It’s such an exciting time to be at Dunfermline.”<\/p>\n
Dunfermline midfielder Matty Todd: “It wasn’t a pretty game, but you could smell the Falkirk team were nervous.<\/p>\n
“Ever since the manager has been in the door he’s been wanting us to take us to the top flight – that’s the goal, but days like this don’t come round too often.”<\/p>\n
Falkirk manager John McGlynn: “We got here by beating Hearts on penalties, so I don’t believe it’s a lottery. I’d be more concerned by not scoring a goal in 120 minutes. <\/p>\n
“We didn’t produce that quality in the final third of the pitch. It didn’t click and that’s frustrating.<\/p>\n
“I thought it was scrappy. Balls getting kicked up in the air. Probably a bit of nerves coming in if I’m honest. It’s very frustrating and painful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunfermline manager Neil Lennon: “I thought we were great. It was attritional but we had the better chances.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-615293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}