It was Albion’s best win at the Amex under Oscar Garcia.

And, four-and-a-half years on, the Catalan coach still recalls in detail how they pulled it off.

Leicester City are back at the Amex today for the first time since they arrived as Championship leaders in early December 2013.

They ended the day third, overhauled by Burnley and QPR, after Albion turned on the style to beat them 3-1.

That was some turn around by the Seagulls, who had lost at home to rock bottom Barnsley in midweek.

That defeat to the Paddy McCourt inspired Tykes, in the first game of December, did not deny Oscar the November manager of the month award.

He celebrated in style against the Foxes.

Oscar, now in charge at Greek Superleague high-flyers Olympiakos, remembers it well.

He relived the occasion for The Argus as he travelled to tonight’s league fixture at Levadiakos.

Oscar, pictured above celebrating the win, said: “I remember we had to change the mood after losing to the bottom team and a match against the leaders was the best fixture we could have had.

“We went out very focused and with clear ideas of how we had to play against them.

“We were one of the few teams to beat them twice.”

David Lopez is feted by Albion fans for his free-kick against Crystal Palace the previous season.

But the Leicester game was perhaps his best for the club. He first half was certainly his best 45 minutes as he brilliantly set up goals for Craig Conway and Ashley Barnes.

David, currently visiting former Athletic de Bilbao team-mate Fernando Amorebieta in Argentina, told The Argus: “I remember it well. It was definitely one of my best games for Brighton with the assist for Ashley and the long pass.”

Barnes latched on to David’s cleverly angled ball across the face of goal to open the scoring on just nine minutes.

Then David took his time over delivering the through ball from which the outstanding Conway chested down, cut inside and, hammered in the second.

A clever back heel to get out of trouble also stood out from David’s display.

Leicester were more of a threat after sending on Anthony Knockaert for Dean Hammond at the break.

Andy King headed home Knockaert’s pinpoint free-kick and Peter Brezovan, a late call-up when Tomasz Kuszczak strained a stomach muscle in the warm-up, made some good saves.

Barnes calmed nerves by converting a 77th-minute penalty after being shoved over by Wes Morgan.

Leicester boss Nigel Pearson did not look overly perturbed as he walked into the press conference afterwards. And rightly so. His side did not lose any of their next 21 games and had secured promotion by the time Albion won the return fixture 4-1 at the King Power Stadium.

Conway was on loan from Cardiff City and it was a major disappointment that he ended up signing for Blackburn rather than making things permanent at the Amex.

From his team bus in Greece, Oscar recalled with impressive clarity: “David Lopez and Conway were very good in attack for us in the home game.

“We wanted to control their wide players so their vigilance was one of the keys.

“We also wanted to keep possession high up the field so their counter attacks had to start from as deep as possible and they had to cover a lot of ground to get to our goal.”

Albion have taken seven points from three games against Leicester at the Amex.

They also enjoyed a thrilling 3-2 win, from 2-0 down, over the same opponents at Withdean in League One in 2008-09.

Two early goals saw Leicester win 2-1 at Withdean in the Championship in 2005-06 and nudge Albion closer to the drop.

Albion: Brezovan; Bruno, Greer (El-Abd 17), Upson, Ward; Bridcutt, Ince; David Lopez (LuaLua 73), Crofts Conway; Barnes.

Leicester: Schmeichel; Miquel, Morgan, Wasilewski, Konchesky; Hammond (Knockaert 46), King, Drinkwater; Nugent (Wood 65), Vardy, Dyer (Taylor-Fletcher 65).