Chris Hughton says Albion should have been awarded a second penalty in the home stalemate with Burnley.

But he does not want James Tarkowski punished retrospectively for elbowing Glenn Murray.

The Seagulls’ striker lifted over the bar a penalty awarded for a tangle of legs with Tarkowski.

Murray also went down in the box holding his ribs in the first half of the 0-0 draw at the Amex.

Hughton told The Argus: “It was a penalty. I saw it at the time. I probably saw it a little bit clearer than the actual penalty which was given.

“It’s a definite elbow on Glenn, in the box and it’s in play. A throw-in has been taken.

“Sometimes you can be critical of referees and sometimes not. It’s difficult to see when it happens at that pace of the game.

“I can half understand the ref or linesman not seeing it but it was certainly a penalty.”

Murray added: “I felt something in my ribs, the referee didn’t see it.”

Referee Chris Kavanagh and his assistants missed the incident but Hughton is not calling for Tarkowski to be retrospectively suspended, a fate suffered by Albion striker Tomer Hemed for a stamp against Newcastle.

Hughton said: “You are never after anybody being banned. These decisions are down to those that make them. I thought we were harshly dealt with with Hemed but that was then. I don’t ever really think about any other incidents.”

Albion have gone seven games without a win and nine-and-a-half-hours without a goal in open play following their fifth home draw of the season.