Falkirk manager John McGlynn not worried about lack of net gains
Falkirk manager John McGlynn says he’s not worried about his side drawing a blank of late as he’s confident they’ll be going for goal again soon.
The Bairns haven’t scored since a 3-0 win at Dundee United back on Saturday, November 22, drawing 0-0 away to Rangers eight days later and at home to Motherwell at the start of the month prior to a 3-0 defeat at Hibernian last Saturday, but the 63-year-old puts that down to that having been a tough run of fixtures he’s happy to have picked up two points from.
“The games have been difficult, so you can understand why maybe goals would dry up,” he said ahead of a visit from William Hill Premiership table-toppers Heart of Midlothian tonight, December 13, with kick-off at the Falkirk Stadium at 8pm.
“Our goals are shared out. We’re not relying on one particular person. They generally come from all over the place. It’s not like we’ve got a No 9 who scores 25 goals and he’s injured now.
“Our goals come from all over, so as much as we may not have scored in the last three games, we’ve been picking up points, which is the be-all and end-all.
“I’m not concerned about our goals. They’ll come from all over the place, really.”
McGlynn’s also unconcerned about his team having fallen to seventh place in the table, on 21 points from 16 fixtures, down from fifth three weeks ago, as they’re five places and 13 points ahead of basement side Livingston and he reckons that’s not bad going for newcomers to the top flight.
“We’re still like a team that’s come up from league one to the championship to the premiership – we’re still enjoying it,” he said.
“That honeymoon period is still there because we’ve still been getting results.
“The players are still enthusiastic. That’s not worn off. We have targets that we want to get to.
“We got 15 points in the first round of 11 games and we’re five games into the second lot of the 11 games and we’ve picked up six points, so you have to be really working on how many points we need to get to be hitting that target, and we’re kind of on course.
“As long as we can have a positive points ratio to games played, then we can keep that cushion from the bottom.”
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