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Wednesday 21st May 2014

Play-off final preview

Hamilton Accies and Hibernian meet in the first leg of the Premiership play-off final at New Douglas Park tonight.

Hamilton Accies and Hibernian meet in the first leg of the Premiership play-off final at New Douglas Park tonight.

The game is live on Sky Sports, kick-off 7.45pm, with Sunday's second leg at Easter Road to be shown on BT Sport with a 3.30pm kick-off.

Accies overcame Falkirk 2-1 in the semi-finals to set up the meeting with a Hibs side who finished the season in 11th place in the Premiership.

Hamilton player/manager Alex Neil, whose side have lost just once since early February, said: "I wouldn't like to be in Terry Butcher's position. It is hard when you are a manager and things are not going for you.

"I saw it here with Billy Reid when we were coming down from the Premiership. It was extremely difficult.

"Hibs have been a Premiership team for a long time and, with the size of club they are and the vast amount of money their players are on, compared to ours, everybody would fancy Hibs in a normal situation.

"But I think the fact that they have not been performing this season and we have been performing well, gives us a good opportunity and we fancy our chances."

Hibernian boss Terry Butcher, whose team have picked up only one win since beating Hearts on January 2, said: "Bad runs and good runs have to come to an end sometime.

"If we keep on playing the way we have been playing and making the chances that we have been making, then we will be fine.

"You can look back and say we didn't do this and we didn't do that -it is what we will do that concerns me and I am looking forward to seeing these boys in the two games.

"It is a big game at Hamilton, there is going to be a full house with lots of Hibs fans there and a cracking atmosphere.

"These are games where you want big players to stand up and we have big, strong players who know they have to stand up and be counted because it is very much crunch time."