It was the visitors who threatened first in the eighth minute when attacker James Keatings took a Scott Martin pass and drilled  in a left-footed shot from 16 yards which Jack Hamilton smartly gathered.

Dundee's play was rather stiff and laboured but in the 24th minute they provided some encouragement to their fans when playmaker Paul McGowan laid the ball back to Curran at the edge of the box with his drive speeding just past the post.

Three minutes later the Dens Park side were ahead.

After the Accies defence had failed to properly clear a Calvin Miller cross from the left, midfielder Glen Kamara twisted and turned inside the Hamilton box before slipping in Miller who clipped the ball high past keeper Jan Mucha from six yards.

As the home side took control, striker Miller fired high over the bar from 16 yards after taking a pass from McGowan, before Keatings drove wide from inside the box after a swift Hamilton counter.

However, six minutes after the break a comeback looked a forlorn prospect for Accies when Miller picked up a clearance from defender Delphin Tshiembe 25 yards from goal and curled the ball past the despairing Mucha.

Accies began to push forward but in the 68th minute they fell further behind when Curran's strike from the edge of the box appeared to come off Ziggy Gordon and nestle behind Mucha.

Hamilton continued to throw bodies forward but were punished again by Miller in the 81st minute when he again beat Mucha with a shot from distance, before going off a few minutes later for Jean Mendy to a well-deserved standing ovation.

Dundee keeper Hamilton saved a late header from substitute Rakish Bingham, on earlier for Fredrik Brustad, to prevent even a consolation goal for the visitors.

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