Hamilton Accies manager Martin Canning was unhappy at defensive mistakes that he said cost his side in their 2-1 defeat to Motherwell.

Accies had gone ahead in the Lanarkshire derby through Giannis Skondras but Andy Rose equalised for the visitors before Peter Hartley score Motherwell's winner.

Canning said that individual errors were damaging and had been in several games this season.

"It's really frustrating," the Hamilton boss said. "You talk about teams finding a way to win, we keep finding a way to lose which is disappointing and we're making individual mistakes.

"You look at St Johnstone, Hearts and Rangers, individually we're not doing our jobs well enough and it's costing us. You can't have that.

"When people are putting in as much as they are and people make basic mistakes and errors, they cost you big time and that's what's happened today, which is frustrating because there's not a lot in the game, same as the other three.

"We're quite a few bodies down but still able to compete with teams of that calibre. For us its disappointing but we have to lick our wounds and get on with it."

Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson said his side had done the hard work to earn their win and were good value for their three points.

"We picked a team to scrap, battle and fight," he said. "It's hard to take a touch on that pitch, it's a hard pitch and levels things (between the sides) but we played the game we wanted to.

"I thought we out-scrapped and out-battled them and thoroughly deserved the win in the end at a hard place to come."