Cunningham’s composure cheers Rice

Brian Rice praised Ross Cunninghams composure as Hamilton earned their first win in six attempts against Livingston.Cunningham came off the bench to convert an 84th-minute penalty after Marios Ogkmpoe was fouled by goalkeeper Ross Stewart.With Blair Alston having earlier cancelled out Alan Lithgows opener for Livingston, Cunninghams finish earned a precious 2-1 win for Accies.Rice said after the Ladbrokes Premiership success: Im absolutely delighted with that result.Ross showed great composure. He was in the team earlier in the season, got a few goals and was doing really well. We changed it a little bit and hes been left out the last two or three weeks.But I just felt this week hes looked sharp in training so I brought him back in. I was shouting for him to take the penalty as hes a good clean striker of the ball.Hes a confident lad so Im delighted for him. Marios wanted it as hes a striker and he wants to score goals.I totally understand that but I had total faith in Rossco as hes a great striker of the ball. If hes on the pitch he would be my first choice to take them.In contrast, Gary Holt felt his team had to start doing the dirty side of the game as Livingston fell to a fourth successive defeat.He said: If you dont defend your box, youre not going towin any game of football, no matter how well you play.I dont think we played great, I think we did well at times and we went a goal up.But we need to be nastier, we need to be uglier. Its not just my centre halves jobs to head the ball, everyone has a responsibility to do that.You need to go and get hurt, put your body on the line and I dont think we did that and thats what has cost us.Its galling to sit here and have lost the game 2-1.In the second half we looked like the team that was going to win but yet again weve lost the game.People need to take responsibility and get back to being ugly. Im not asking people to have a fight with each other but weve got a niceness about us because we play nicer football.I thought our delivery into the box was poor so there are areas to work (on) there.I dont think we tried our best when the ball came into our box.(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
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