A strong team performance from Accies seen them come away with all 3 points away from home against EKFC Reds. Accies came into the game top of the table with 4 wins from 5 and kept up their impressive form against EK who had won 1 and lost 1.

It was a scrappy affair in the opening stages with the best chance coming from Accies Stuart McIntyre who put a header narrowly wide. The Deadlock was broken on the 17^th minute with Cameron Stewart getting on the end of a loose ball to coolly place it in the bottom corner to make it 1-0 Accies.

Not long after this on the 19^th minute Accies doubled their lead with Jonathon Banks getting on the end of a long ball rolling it into an empty net after the Goalkeeper slipped when coming to collect the ball.

This gave EK a wakeup call, growing into the game more and more having multiple opportunities including Kieran McGuire’s effort being superbly stopped by Craig Murdoch in the Accies goal.

But, their hard work was undone after a dip of the shoulder from McIntyre allowed him in behind to fire home and make the game seem beyond EK before half time. 

Accies came out all guns blazing in the second half and re-started the scoring in the 48th minute after nice interplay between Luke Murphy and Banks, allowed Banks to hit a sweet half volley into the right hand corner of the net to make it 4-0.  

The match became a scrappy affair again with EK looking to prove a point but just couldn’t get the ball into the final third. This was until the 74th minute when Paul Smith made a mazy run down the right for EK, his cross making Jamie McBearty who fired high into the Accies net.

However it was a case of déjà vu for EK. Just as it looked like they were getting back in the game Accies struck back with murphy slipping through Dean Burton who smashed it home.

The floodgates had opened and 3 minutes later Conner Smith, who had been running the show in Midfield, had his 30 yard shot bobble over the keeper to make it 6-1. However less than a minute later EK pulled back another one, Smith’s cross resulted in a 6 yard melee with McGuire heading home to make it 6-2

It was a solid performance from Accies who keep their position at the top of the table. It just wasn’t EK’s day who will be looking to bounce back from this disappointing defeat against their next opponents.