Martin Canning told Massimo Donati he owed his team-mates after Hamilton Accies won for the first time in eight league games despite the Italian’s red card.
Canning’s side were 2-0 up after Iannis Skondras headed home a Dougie Imrie cross before half-time and David Templeton struck after 64 minutes. Dundee hit back with an A-Jay Leitch-Smith penalty three minutes later following a handball by Skondras and after 75 minutes Donati collected a second booking when he kicked the ball away.
However, Antonio Raul Rojano sealed the points for the visitors four minutes from time.
Hamilton manager Martin Canning said: “It’s never easy coming up to Dens Park so we’re absolutely delighted. Our most experienced player, Massimo, made a naive mistake, which could have cost us but he owes the boys one for digging even deeper.
“It was a moment of madness. He should know better despite being frustrated. I’ve told Massimo in front of the rest of the boys that he owes them all a beer!”
Dundee slumped to the bottom of the Premiership on goal difference after Kilmarnock’s draw with Celtic. Dens Park boss Neil McCann said: “I’m aware of the league table. I don’t like being down at the bottom of the table. I’m trying to change things here so that we’re not looking down in that direction.
“All the other teams who have started to go above us now have been through difficult periods and we’re exper-iencing one now. The only way to get out of it is to get the boys to be brave and still believe in what we’re doing.
“This is when you need to use your man-management skills to gather the boys and make sure they become stronger characters. Our game has been really attractive to watch but we need to do the ugly side of things as well.
“I’m not going to roll over. We’ll get back to work to try and become harder to beat. Again, we were in control of the match and then we got done by a sucker-punch with the goal just before half-time.”
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