Tomas Cerny denied Motherwell's Tom Hateley from the spot just before the half-time interval after Martin Canning had felled Nick Blackman, but Hamilton held out to take all three points from the narrow victory.

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But Steele also did brilliantly to keep out a Crouch header on the stroke of half-time and Barnsley capitalised when they equalised out of nowhere after the interval.

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