Chris Hughton believes Albion let the chance of a landmark result pass them by at Newcastle.

The Seagulls boss was disappointed with some of his team's work on the ball in a 2-0 defeat on Tyneside.

But he still felt they could have taken something from the contest.

Hughton said: "I was really disappointed because, even in hindsight, I thought we had a really good opportunity.

"I didn’t think we were good enough on the ball but our stats equal all of theirs.

"Arguably we had two of the best chances from open play in the game.

"We conceded from two set plays and the second one was a great free-kick.

"Occasionally you go somewhere and you are absolutely outclassed, they have lots of chances, your goalkeeper is having to make lots of saves.

"That wasn’t the case – and if that’s not the case it means you are always in the game.

"But we didn’t have a good enough control of the ball at times and we conceded bad goals.

"What Newcastle managed to do was control the game.

"It’s not as if they had lots of chances. They hit the crossbar in that first half but the two opportunities we had were, I thought, two of the best of the game."