A miserable week for Dundee was rounded off by their third defeat in seven days which dropped Neil McCann’s men to the bottom of the Premiership.
Bogey team Hamilton Accies exposed some very shaky defending with goals from Ioannis Skondras, David Templeton and Antonio Rojano – all of which were poor from a Dundee point of view.
A-Jay Leitch-Smith scored a penalty for the Dens Park side – which made it 2-1 at the time – but it proved to be a false dawn.
It was a much-changed line-up for the hosts, with Kerr Waddell, Randy Wolters, Paul McGowan and Leitch-Smith all starting.
This game was certainly a slow-burner, with the first chance of any note coming on 26 minutes when Marcus Haber played in McGowan, and the captain for the day wasn’t far off target with his shot.
Dundee started to get a bit of momentum and Wolters did well to beat his man on the left and his cross wasn’t that bad either. Unfortunately, though, there were no takers when it flashed across goal.
On 33 minutes Lewis Spence drove forward from midfield and it took a fine Gary Woods save to keep out his sweetly struck shot.
At the other end Rakish Bingham should have done better when the ball dropped for him near the penalty shot but his technique let him down and the striker barely connected with his first-time swipe.
His team-mate Skondras was much more clinical on 39 minutes for Accies’ opener. A perfectly weighted Dougie Imrie cross from the left caught the Dundee defence flat-footed and the full-back sneaked in at the back post where he directed a header back across Scot Bain and into the corner of the net.
It was a sloppy start to the second half from the Dark Blues and Josh Meekings had to time a sliding tackle perfectly on the 18-yard line to prevent Darian MacKinnon from surging into the box.
On 52 minutes a Wolters corner was volleyed by Meekings. The defender’s effort was on target and cleared by Bingham from near the goal-line but the keeper probably had it covered anyway.
Accies doubled their lead on 64 minutes and again the Dundee defence was caught out. A basic diagonal free-kick ended up with Templeton having time to bring the ball down in the box and then finish low past Bain.
The two-goal advantage for the visitors only lasted three minutes and it was Leitch-Smith who dragged Dundee back in the game from the penalty spot after there had been a hand ball.
Accies should have finished the game off on 74 minutes when substitute Steven Boyd was through on goal and his shot was saved by the feet of Bain.
Their one-goal lead started to look fragile when Massimo Donati got a second yellow card for kicking the ball away and Hamilton were down to 10 men.
But the win was secured with five minutes left, when Greg Docherty picked out Rojano, who made no mistake from close range.
