{"id":70489,"date":"2026-02-22T02:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/hearts-narrow-wins-bedrock-of-success-as-leaders-edge-falkirk\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:58:25","slug":"hearts-narrow-wins-bedrock-of-success-as-leaders-edge-falkirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/hearts-narrow-wins-bedrock-of-success-as-leaders-edge-falkirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts: Narrow wins &#8216;bedrock of success&#8217; as leaders edge Falkirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More of those will be more than welcome considering their title rivals are beginning to motor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Danny Rohl&#8217;s Rangers have lost just once &#8211; away to Porto in the Europa League &#8211; in 14 outings since losing at Tynecastle in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reigning champions Celtic, just six behind Hearts with two games in hand, have lost once in 11, albeit a bruising 4-1 Europa League loss at home to Stuttgart on Thursday, and rekindled their habit of vital late goals under interim manager Martin O&#8217;Neill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Motherwell, 10 behind with a game in hand, will surely also have a say in the destiny of the title given they have lost once in their latest 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts&#8217; three wins in their latest seven outings are not quite as impressive, and McInnes admitted: &#8220;The first half, there was a 20-25 minute period where we looked really anxious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our out-of-possession stuff was good the whole game, but our in-possession stuff needed to be better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the Hearts boss thought that, overall, his side coped well with John McGlynn&#8217;s dangerous Bairns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were far better in the second half than we were first,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We were the team that looked more likely to score a second goal in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I watch Falkirk often enough and they normally pepper teams, they normally put endless crosses in the box, they normally create so many chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Very rarely do they not score. But it wasn&#8217;t really like that. The second half, we were comfortable enough, we kept them away at arm&#8217;s length.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were a lot of people tipping Falkirk to come here and win, but I thought we thoroughly deserved the win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1w5pnnwjvyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More of those will be more than welcome considering their title rivals are beginning to motor. Danny Rohl&#8217;s Rangers have lost just once &#8211; away to Porto in the Europa League &#8211; in 14 outings since losing at Tynecastle in December. Reigning champions Celtic, just six behind Hearts with two games in hand, have lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[19594,2063,17238,2323,511,159,2133,1902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70491,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70489\/revisions\/70491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}