Hamilton Accies midfielder Daire O’Connor admits he’ll look back and wince at his miss in their defeat to Queen’s Park.
The Irishman fired a volley agonisingly wide late on at Hampden yesterday as they chased an equaliser to cancel out Jack Turner’s 62nd minute strike for the Spiders.
It was a huge chance and the 27-year-old knows it, but he admits a lack of match sharpness, having just returned from a hamstring injury, had a hand in his failure to convert.
He said: “I’ve been out for a few weeks so that would have been the perfect comeback. But, unfortunately, that bit of sharpness I needed comes with game time and I haven’t had much of that in the past couple of weeks.
“I’ll watch it back and probably wince at it. I’ve said to the lads in the dressing room that I should score, I’ve put my hand up, but that’s football. There will be another chance soon.
“As the ball fell to me, I felt I should hit it early. I had it in my mind to find the far corner. I could see it going in, but then I realised it hadn’t gone in and that potentially cost us at least a point in the game.
“If that had gone in, the momentum changes and you never know what might have happened. But that’s football, we have to move on very quickly.”
Spiders should have taken the lead in 32 minutes when a silky run from Fieldson saw him weave his way past three defenders and lay the ball on a plate for Ryan Duncan to score, but he somehow blazed over. Down the other end, Lee Kilday had an acrobatic effort kept out by Calum Ferrie.
But Spiders found the breakthrough in 62 minutes when Fieldson fired a delivery across the face of goal and unmarked Turner was able to take a touch and fire home from six yards.
O’Connor then dragged a volley wide when he should have found the target.
He added: “I thought the lads did play well. It was a game of missed opportunities. We missed a few in the first half and they missed a sitter in the first half. But they took their only chance in the second half and that was the game done.
“I think that the Scottish Championship summed up fairly well! There’s not a lot in it between the teams.”
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