MARTIN Canning will be looking for Hamilton Accies to halt the slide when they host relegation rivals Inverness tomorrow night, following their 3-0 loss at St Johnstone on Saturday.
Not for the first time this season Accies were made to pay for spurning chances.
Graham Cummins netted a second-half double for the hosts and Murray Davidson added a third goal with a header.
Hamilton have gone 12 Ladbrokes Premiership games without a win, losing five of their last six, and are above bottom side Caley Thistle only by a goal difference of one.
Manager Canning said: “The one thing we generally have done well is if we have had a poor performance, a poor result, we have bounced back well in the next game.
“And there is none more important than Tuesday. We have to make sure we are right at it and give ourselves the opportunity to win the game.”
Canning, however, admitted he fears Accies will pay for their profligacy come the end of the season.
“That’s the way it is looking,” he said. “We can’t keep sitting here saying we are not taking opportunities. If you can’t score and keep conceding, then you’re on a hiding to nothing.
“I said to the boys that if we think we’re a good enough team to keep creating six or seven opportunities before we take one, and think we’re good enough defensively to keep teams from scoring, then we’re going to have an issue.
“The way we’re set up is the right way to do it. It was proven as we were the better team for 50 minutes.
“I don’t know what it is. I don’t know if it’s a mental block. We score plenty in training, so I don’t know why we’re not putting it in the net on game day.”
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright hopes Cummins’ goals – they were his first since September and doubled his tally for the season – will help the Irishman’s confidence.
He said: “Strikers want to score goals but there are other attributes they bring, such as leading the line and working hard, and he has done that without much success in front of goal.
“Hopefully, this will give him the impetus to go and kick on in the second half of the season.”
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