Jose Mourinho has called for calm as Manchester United try to reel off a seventh straight home win in the Premier League against Albion tomorrow to cut the gap at the top of the table.

Mourinho's men trail Manchester City by eight points. City visit Huddersfield on Sunday.

Mourinho, speaking at his press conference ahead of Albion's visit, said: "We cannot think about the gap, we cannot think about the gap to City, we cannot think about the gap to the fifth position. You just have to focus on ourselves in matches.

"In this moment we haven't yet reached 50 per cent of the season so let's be calm. We have four competitions to play and let's go step-by-step."

Albion are United's second promoted opponents in as many matches at Old Trafford after they thrashed Newcastle 4-1 last Saturday.

Mourinho said: "I don't know who is more ambitious than us, we played against Newcastle with Pogba, Rashford, Martial, Mata, Lukaku. The full-backs are not full-backs.

"We focus on Brighton - ninth in the table, good team, difficult to beat, don't concede many goals. I think Chris Hughton is doing a great job."