Hamilton Accies can finish the season unbeaten, says defender

Defender Dan O'Reilly has challenge his Hamilton team-mates to put their play-off disappointment behind them and finish the season unbeaten in their last three games.

Accies' slim hopes of nabbing fourth place in the Championship were ended on Saturday as Arbroath ran out 1-0 winners, courtesy of Jack Hamilton's 59th-minute strike, which also kept alive their own title ambitions.

O'Reilly says it's important to react well to adversity, and hopes Accies can come out of clashes with Morton, Raith Rovers and Inverness with as many points as they can, and finish as high up the table as possible.

He said: “We just have to finish positively. In this league you go into any game, whether you’re playing someone at the bottom or the top, and I think you can win the game.

“We beat Morton here, so next week we’ll be going in there, trying to get a win and, most importantly, a reaction from today as well.

"We’re well capable of it. We’ve got a good squad and mentality.

"Football is about reactions sometimes, you just have to put today behind you and build to next week.

"We were unbeaten in the last four, we should have three wins on the bounce.

"In terms of proving ourselves, we just have to finish the season strongly. finish in the table as high as we can.

"There’s not much in it, points-wise, not much in it between much of the teams.

"But we have enough there to get a couple of wins and maybe finish the season unbeaten."

O'Reilly, 26, says Saturday's defeat was enormously frustrating, and showed a lack of quality on the day.

Accies passed up a number of chances in the first half, but Arbroath's winner seemed to take the wind out of their sails, and they struggled thereafter.

He said: "I thought in the first half we controlled the