Dundee United came from behind to win a five-goal thriller against 10-man Falkirk and breathe fresh life into their hopes of catching the Bairns for a top-six spot in the Scottish Premiership.<\/p>\n
It stops a four-match top-flight losing streak for the Tannadice side, earning their first league win of a frustrating 2026 so far. <\/p>\n
Substitute Julius Eskesen was the late hero for the visitors, blasting past Scott Bain with seven minutes left after Falkirk had been reduced to 10 men midway through the half.<\/p>\n
It followed a VAR review that encouraged referee Ryan Lee to upgrade his yellow card for Liam Henderson to red for denying Max Watters a clear goalscoring opportunity as he broke clear on the counter.<\/p>\n
At that point, the game was finely balanced at 2-2, with United twice pegging their hosts back.<\/p>\n
A nice finish from former Bairns midfielder Craig Sibbald levelled for the second time in the game, minutes after left-back Leon McCann crossed for right-back Filip Lissah to blast Falkirk ahead.<\/p>\n
In the first half, a second goal in as many games from Aston Villa loanee Ben Broggio opened the scoring before a mistake from Bain handed United their first equaliser. His weak punch landed at the feet of centre-half Ross Graham, who finished coolly.<\/p>\n
Lewis Neilson cut a frustrated figure for the hosts as the width of the crossbar prevented his looping header from restoring Falkirk’s advantage. <\/p>\n
Falkirk looked dangerous in the second period until Henderson’s red card handed Dundee United the advantage, with the visitors profiting to claim their first top-flight win at the Falkirk Stadium in 16 years and go level on points with seventh-place Aberdeen.<\/p>\n
Frustration for Falkirk but their successful season could easily end with them influencing the race for the title as they still enjoy an 11-point cushion over Aberdeen, who play the first of their three games in hand at Motherwell on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dundee United came from behind to win a five-goal thriller against 10-man Falkirk and breathe fresh life into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-425795","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}