HAMILTON ACCIES 0

QUEEN’S PARK 2

Murray (42), Savoury (52)

Queen’s Park saw off Hamilton Accies 2-0 in Lanarkshire with the main talking point being whether Spiders striker Grant Savoury scored one goal or two.

Savoury certainly grabbed his side’s second. However, team-mate Simon Murray looked to have robbed him of the first by poking the ball over the line just as the debate over whether a free-kick from Savoury had done likewise was about to rage.

Head coach Owen Coyle said: “I thought Grant’s free-kick had gone in but Simon did what good strikers do and followed up. Both of them are claiming it, as they should, as I claimed goals throughout my career.

“We were exciting to watch and made a lot of chances. However, our keeper, Calum Ferrie, had a good game against a Hamilton side that created chances.”

The first half saw plenty of action with Queen’s star Jonny Kenny kicking things off on nine minutes when he fired an inch wide after Savoury had taken advantage of confusion in the Accies midfield to roll the ball into his path. Hamilton suffered bad luck twice within seconds on 23 minutes with Dario Zanatta drilling against the inside of the post from 20 yards before Andy Winter was denied by a fantastic, leaping stop by Calum Ferrie with his follow-up. Kenny was an inch off target twice before Dom Thomas was brought down at the edge of the Hamilton box three minutes before half-time. Savoury curled the dead ball over the wall and it looked like his effort had crossed the line after hitting the underside of the bar and goalkeeper Ryan Fulton, with the stand-side assistant finally acknowledging a goal after Murray’s scrambled followed-up effort. The Spiders grabbed a second seven minutes into the second half when Savoury collected a pass from substitute Jack Davidson and turned away from his marker before firing high into the net. Queen’s should have wrapped things up when Kenny was teed up on the hour mark. However, the striker’s effort was deflected wide with home boss John Rankin saying: “Goals change games. We had chances before they scored the first and after that goal as well, but we were not ruthless enough.”