Hibernian moved closer to claiming European football for next season with a dominant win at Falkirk, arresting a run of three straight Scottish Premiership losses.<\/p>\n
David Gray said pre-match this was his side’s biggest game of the season, knowing a Celtic win in the Scottish Cup final against Dunfermline would guarantee the fifth-place Premiership side a place in the Conference League qualifiers. <\/p>\n
The head coach will have been delighted with the positive start his side made.<\/p>\n
An early corner from Jordan Obita was met by Josh Campbell at the back post, timing his run well, having been left unmarked inside the area.<\/p>\n
Campbell then ghosted in at the back post to meet Martin Boyle’s terrific whipped cross to double Hibs’ lead inside the opening 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Falkirk failed to make a spell of slight dominance pay, and found themselves three behind when Felix Passlack’s driven cross evaded Boyle but fell to Obita, who lashed it in underneath goalkeeper Nicky Hogarth.<\/p>\n
A relatively sedate second half followed the restart, with Ben Broggio’s thunderous strike pulling one back for the hosts with 15 minutes to go.<\/p>\n
John McGlynn’s side left it too late to find a route back into the game though, despite a late flurry of pressure on the Hibs backline.<\/p>\n
Hibs now sit three points off fourth-place Motherwell ahead of their match with league-leaders Motherwell on Saturday (20:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hibernian moved closer to claiming European football for next season with a dominant win at Falkirk, arresting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-440840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}