Chris Hughton wants Albion's non-scorers to step up to the plate in the Premier League to help the survival cause.

Only bottom two Swansea and West Brom have scored fewer than the Seagulls' 17 goals.

They also have the lowest tally away from home.

Glenn Murray is leading marksman with six. Pascal Gross has four (plus five assists) and Tomer Hemed two.

The other goals have come from the wingers. Anthony Knockaert joined Jose Izquierdo on two with the opener against Bournemouth on Monday and Solly March scored against the same opponents earlier in the season.

The defenders have yet to contribute, together with central midfielders Dale Stephens and Davy Propper.

Hughton told The Argus: "For any team in the area where we are in the league it is difficult to have a striker who scores a lot of goals.

"Generally any striker scoring a lot of goals is going to be in a team in the top half.

"So you are reliant on contributions from around the team and I think it is about stepping up to the plate, individuals, centre-halves (Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy) who have been outstanding for us this season making more contribution from set plays.

"It was good to see Anthony Knockaert scoring in our last game and a contribution from other areas of the pitch."

Although Albion are still 12th, seven points clear of Swansea and next Saturday's hosts West Brom following the festive fixtures, they are only three points above Stoke in 18th.

Hughton said: "Overall I think we've done okay but it's such a tight division and we continually talk about over a season.

"It's not a short period and there were some teams who had difficult starts that you were quite confident would start to improve – Everton have pushed on, West Ham with the quality that they have.

"So it makes it a very difficult and competitive league, of course, and any team that has a difficult period and loses two and certainly three games on the spin can find themselves in and around that bottom three.

"So yes, that's always the concern. It's always about trying to keep as far as we can away from the third-from-bottom team."