Jim Duffy lauds Morton after they stun Hamilton

Morton boss Jim Duffy claimed his team were a class apart from Hamilton after they knocked their Premiership opponents out of the Betfred Cup.

The Championship club bounced back from Dougie Imrie's early penalty - after Lee Kilday's clumsy barge on the former Morton man - and deservedly sealed a 2-1 win thanks to two excellent strikes in four second-half minutes.

Ross Forbes curled a free-kick into the top corner from 25 yards before Jai Quitongo volleyed home after Michael Devlin failed to cut out Forbes' long pass.

Duffy said: "We were different class, by far the better team throughout the 90 minutes. It would have been a travesty if a very controversial decision stopped us getting into the next round.

"Fair play to the players they regrouped and but for terrific goalkeeping and a bit of misfortune we would have been ahead in the first half.

"They were two fantastic goals. The free-kick was right pout the top drawer and Jai's finish was great again, it was a great ball in behind by Ross."

Quitongo, son of former Accies winger Jose, was at the Hamilton youth academy as a boy and he shone on his return.

Duffy said: "He's 18 years of age and he's got talent. He's raw and he's unpredictable at times. He can put a smile on your face and he can put a frown on your face. But at the moment he is putting on plenty of smiles. He's got pace, he's strong and he has scored three goals already this season."

Hamilton boss Martin Canning did not disagree with Duffy's overall assessment.

"They deserved to win the game," he said. "We started well and go 1-0 up and I don't know if the mentality was we had done enough. Morton stuck to it and the frustrating thing is we got done by stuff we spoke about on Monday.

"We know a ball over the top, Jai Quitongo is a threat, and he was through three one-on-ones, which is unacceptable to defend like that at our level.

"Too many players had an off night and if your two centre-backs defend as poorly as that, you can't win games."