Falkirk earned a stunning first victory over Celtic in 19 years as they took advantage of an abject display by the visitors to move up to fourth place in the Scottish Premiership.<\/p>\n
Ethan Ross’ early goal was added to by Scott Tanser’s excellent run and finish before the break as John McGlynn’s side ruthlessly exposed Celtic’s defensive frailties.<\/p>\n
Martin O’Neill’s league leaders did come close on a number of occasions, with Camilo Duran denied by a post and Falkirk goalkeeper Scott Bain in stunning form throughout.<\/p>\n
Defeat leaves Celtic with a record of three wins from their past 10 outings as they failed to extend their four-point lead at the top of the table.<\/p>\n
Falkirk struck with their first attack and Celtic played a huge role in the concession. The returning Cameron Carter-Vickers was so lax, diverting the ball straight to Ross, who slammed in from close range.<\/p>\n
A response came, but it never came to enough. Duran raced in behind and angled a shot off the far post, before Bain produced a wonderful save to deny Haissem Hassan’s curling effort on the rebound.<\/p>\n
Bain intervened so many times it got slightly ridiculous. His display was top drawer.<\/p>\n
Falkirk’s second goal arrived in stunning style. Owen Eames played a superb pass to Tanser, who burst through the defence to slot home beautifully. Celtic’s defence was ripped wide open.<\/p>\n
Celtic rang the changes and had several glaring chances but couldn’t breach the home side as Falkirk earned a famous victory that will live long in the memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falkirk earned a stunning first victory over Celtic in 19 years as they took advantage of an abject…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820872","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=820872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}