Defender Dan O'Reilly has problem his Hamilton team-mates to place their play-off disappointment behind them and end the season unbeaten of their final three video games.
Accies' slim hopes of nabbing fourth place within the Championship had been ended on Saturday as Arbroath ran out 1-0 winners, courtesy of Jack Hamilton's 59th-minute strike, which additionally saved alive their very own title ambitions.
O'Reilly says it is essential to react properly to adversity, and hopes Accies can come out of clashes with Morton, Raith Rovers and Inverness with as many factors as they'll, and end as excessive up the desk as attainable.
He mentioned: “We simply have to complete positively. On this league you go into any recreation, whether or not you’re enjoying somebody on the backside or the highest, and I feel you possibly can win the sport.
“We beat Morton right here, so subsequent week we’ll be getting in there, attempting to get a win and, most significantly, a response from at this time as properly.
"We’re properly able to it. We’ve bought a great squad and mentality.
"Soccer is about reactions generally, you simply must put at this time behind you and construct to subsequent week.
"We had been unbeaten within the final 4, we should always have three wins on the bounce.
"By way of proving ourselves, we simply have to complete the season strongly. end within the desk as excessive as we are able to.
"There’s not a lot in it, points-wise, not a lot in it between a lot of the groups.
"However we now have sufficient there to get a few wins and perhaps end the season unbeaten."
O'Reilly, 26, says Saturday's defeat was enormously irritating, and confirmed an absence of high quality on the day.
Accies handed up numerous possibilities within the first half, however Arbroath's winner appeared to take the wind out of their sails, and so they struggled thereafter.
He mentioned: "I assumed within the first half we managed the sport, and generally that may be a bit harmful, since you’re getting a bit snug.
“We began the second half a bit sloppy, after which they scored the objective, we had been attempting to place stress on and simply couldn’t actually create something scientific.
“To be honest to them they defended their field properly, defended every part we threw up, and it was only a irritating day on the workplace.
“You by no means fault us for effort and grit, however we lacked a little bit of high quality within the second half, from again to entrance.
"On the finish of the day we’ve conceded a objective and misplaced by one, however we should always nonetheless be capable of claw that again with high quality, and that begins from us on the again.
“We simply have to complete positively, now. On this league you go into any recreation, whether or not you’re enjoying somebody on the backside or the highest, and I feel you possibly can win."
Hamilton's response to the defeat begins at Cappielow subsequent weekend as they arrive up in opposition to former star Dougie Imrie's Morton.
Having grabbed a win over the Greenock aspect already this season, O'Reilly says they'll do the identical.
“We beat Morton right here, so subsequent week we’ll be getting in there, attempting to get a win and, most significantly, a response," he mentioned.
“We’re properly able to it, we’ve bought a ok squad and mentality.
“Soccer is about reactions generally, you simply must put at this time behind you and construct to subsequent week."
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