Partick Thistle and Queens are teams we should be beating, says Hamilton striker

Hamilton Accies striker Andy Winter says beating Partick Thistle and Queen of the South in their next two fixtures can push his side up the Championship table - and they're games they should be winning.

Stuart Taylor's side head to Firhill on March 19, and host Queens seven days later as Hamilton approach the final straight in their season.

Thistle hammered Hamilton 6-1 in October and won 1-0 at Firhill the following month, before the sides battled out a 2-2 draw at New Douglas Park in January.

Results against Queen of the South have been more positive, with three straight wins over the Dumfries side.

And Winter, 20, says they're games Hamilton should be winning if they have any hopes of getting closer to a play-off slot, rather than fighting relegation.

Accies drew 2-2 with basement side Dunfermline on Saturday, and Winter says they have to draw a line under that and move on.

He said: "We have to, there's no other option at this time in the season. Two wins in a row can take you so far up the table, so you've got to look forward to the next couple of games and I think they're two that we should be winning - especially with how we can be playing.

"We have to push ourselves up the table.

"In the next two games you never know what can happen, if we take our chances and win our next few games we could start to push away."

Winter was left frustrated after Saturday's draw, with David Moyo headers cancelling out Coll Donaldson's top-corner screamer and Steven Lawless' penalty, and says his side created enough chances to have won.

He said: "I think from the game a draw was probably the fair result, but I think we did enough to win it, if you know what I mean.

"We had chances in the second half.

"I think we started off quite