‘Brilliant’ Kiltie set the tone for us, says Dyer

Alex Dyer praised two-goal Greg Kiltie for inspiring Kilmarnock to their 2- 0 S cottish Premiership win over Hamilton at Rugby Park.

T h e 2 3 - y e a r - o l d a t t a c k - e r o p e n e d t h e s c o r i n g f r o m c l o s e r a n g e i n t h e 3 6 t h m i n u t e and added a second with a terrific curling shot in the 63rd m i n u t e t o c l i n c h three deserved points.

Dye r ' s s i d e moved u p to seventh place and are now unb eaten in three matches after a five -game losing streak.

T h e K i l m a r n o c k b o s s praised Kiltie for his overall contribution to the win. Dyer, pictured, said: "Kiltie was excellent, he set the tone a l l a f t e r n o o n , h e wo r k e d hard and scored t wo good g o a l s . A l l - r o u n d p e r f o r - mance, he was brilliant and that triggered everyone else off.

"They all worked extremely well, showed good quality, passed the ball extremely well and to b e fair they c o u l d n ' t l i v e w i t h u s today.”

Brian Rice was left frustrated that Hamilton's prepa r a t i o n s h a d o n c e a g a i n been disrupted by coronav i r u s i s s u e s , wh i c h h ave dog ged the club intermittently this season. Defender Aaron Martin was forced to withdraw in the morning o f t h e g a me a f t e r his Covid-19 track and trace app told h i m h e h a d t o i s o - late and veteran skip - p er B rian Easton was out injured.

B o s s R i c e s a i d : "T h e r e wasn't a great deal in it. Kilma r n o c k we r e t h e b e t t e r team in the first half and in the second we were still in it and giving it a go.

"R e memb e r, we a l s o h i t the bar at 0 - 0. But we were missing our two main centre-halves from the last two clean sheets.”