Derek McInnes looking for magnificent seven from Aberdeen
Tuesday 15 September 2015 16:44, UK
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes is looking for his side to stretch their winning streak to seven matches when they take on Hamilton at Pittodrie on Tuesday night.
The Dons went two points clear of Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premiership table with a 2-1 home win over the champions on Saturday.
Defender Paul Quinn scored a dramatic 86th-minute winner after Adam Rooney's penalty had cancelled out Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths' first-half spot-kick and Jonny Hayes saw red for a challenge on Hoops defender Mikael Lustig.
Aberdeen set a club record of six successive league wins at the start of the season and could go five points clear in their home game in hand against Accies.
Hayes is available after the Dons lodged an appeal against the red card he received at the weekend. Accies' midfielders Danny Redmond and Darren Lyon are available for the first time this season but defender Michael Devlin misses out.
"That is an opportunity," said McInnes. "Saturday was an opportunity to get to the top of the table and beat Celtic and Tuesday is an opportunity to keep that run going and go seven games, hopefully, and that is what we intend to do.
"But it will take a similar level of determination and performance from us to get the job done.
"We are not going to be more determined against Celtic than we will be, hopefully, against Hamilton. People who follow us see the determination in us.
"When you play [and win] against a team of Celtic's quality - they are a good team who can hurt you with moments with quality - it is good for confidence and you see how the supporters reacted at the end.
"It was important the supporters saw their team hell-bent on making sure the game went our way.
"To do it in the manner which we did - probably a lot of people didn't think we were capable of that.
"Thankfully the staff here and players always felt it was a result we could get and a performance of which we were capable."
