Falkirk boss John McGlynn hails Hearts demolition job as Bairns keep on winning.

John McGlynn hailed Falkirk’s victory over Hearts as “outstanding” after his in-form side made it five wins on the spin in the Scottish Premiership in serious style.

The Bairns obliterated the hosts’ 18-month long unbeaten home league record on Sunday, with a scintillating first-half display simply blowing Hearts away. Ipswich Town loanee Finley Barbrook opened the scoring after just four minutes, with Owen Eames, Jacob Murrell and Liam Henderson also getting on the scoresheet before half time.

Former DC United forward Murrell then grabbed his second and Falkirk’s fifth shortly after the break, sweeping home a low cross from Ethan Ross to cap off one of Falkirk’s most memorable matches of the McGlynn era. Substitute Sabri Guendouz and Claudio Braga - who also had a goal disallowed for a handball in the first half - did get goals back for the Tynecastle outfit but the damage had been done by that point.

John McGlynn hails Falkirk win over Hearts

“I've never been 5-0 up here before!” proud boss McGlynn beamed. “First half we were outstanding. It was great start to the game for us to get the goal so early. It was well documented about the Hearts’ injuries, and coming off the back of the game on Thursday night, it was always going to be difficult for them. We had to smell blood and we had to go for it, and that's exactly what happened. The goals and our play were outstanding in the first half.

“We won every duel, we won everything all over the park. We got ourselves 4-0 up at half-time, which is dreamland. At 3pm, we never expected to be 4-0 up at half-time and certainly not 5-0 up a few minutes into the second half, which was another really good goal in transition. A lot of goals in transition, but it's a big part of the game. We were very clinical as well.

“It was outstanding. Hearts changed formation and made substitutions at half time. That caused us some problems and it meant that Hearts had a lot at the ball and dominated the second period. But we're taking 5-2 every day of the week, make no mistake about it. It jumps us up into third place in the league. Winning five on the trot has not been done since 1995 by Jim Jefferies' team of that time, so I'm delighted for everyone involved at the football club that we've managed to equal that record.”

Falkirk now face a break from Premiership action due to the international break. The Bairns return to action on Saturday, November 21 with a home match against St Johnstone. McGlynn’s side will then be going for six wins in a row - but the boss says that it is important to not get carried away despite his team’s remarkable rise of late.

He added: “We're 13 games in. We’re not getting carried away. Virtually every other game has been on a knife edge. You could win it, you could lose it, it could be a draw. And the league is very much like that.”

On losing the ever-impressive Brad Spencer to injury in the second half, McGlynn said that the midfielder had hurt his knee and that he would be assessed this week.