Hamilton 1 Partick Thistle 2: Fourth defeat on the spin as spirited Accies stay bottom

Hamilton Accies suffered a fourth defeat on the spin as Championship leaders Partick Thistle inflicted more misery on the struggling South Lanarkshire side.

It was a spirited display from Accies following last week's 5-0 thrashing at Morton, but the Jags still walked away with all three points thanks to strikes from Brian Graham and substitute Scott Tiffoney, either side of Andy Ryan's leveller for Accies early in the second half.

Accies threw everything at it late on and Ryan was denied a last-gasp equaliser by a superb save from Jamie Sneddon.

John Rankin's men have now conceded 11 goals in their last four outings and, with just one win in 10 league games, that form leaves them rock bottom of the Championship standings on goal difference from Arbroath, who they play next weekend in a huge clash.

Accies made three changes from their embarassing 5-0 defeat at Morton last week, as John-Pierre Tiehi, Lewis Smith and Ryan One all dropped to the bench to be replaced by Andy Ryan, Dario Zanatta and Johnny Ngandu.

Partick also made three alterations from their last outing - a 1-0 defeat at Inverness - with Jamie Sneddon replacing David Mitchell in goal, while Cole McKinnon came in for Scott Tiffoney and Aidan Fitzpatrick came in for the suspended Kyle Turner.

The hosts went into the clash having dropped to the bottom of the division on Friday night following Arbroath's 1-1 draw at Queen's Park, which lifted Lichties above Accies on goal difference.

Rankin's men showed some early fight in the first 10 minutes of the game as they restricted Partick to very little and threatened to get in behind the visitors' defence.

Eventually they found a way through in the 13th minute and they should have taken the lead. Ngandu played a neat