First the good news. Albion’s win ratio has improved dramatically under Gus Poyet.

It is currently 60%, a healthy improvement on the miserable 16.66% prior to his appointment.

Now the bad news. The Seagulls are still conceding goals at the same sort of horrid rate.

They have let in ten in five matches with the Uruguayan in charge, compared to nine in the final five games of Russell Slade’s reign.

Poyet and his Argentinian accomplice, Mauricio Taricco, are trying to amend the persistent trend by encouraging collective responsibility.

Taricco said: “We are working on working together and covering each other and not leaving spaces for teams to get in between us. That is what we are concentrating on to stop the leaks.

“It is a little bit like this in general in division one. Teams go one v one all over the pitch.

“We don’t believe in one v ones. We believe in a team and in people helping each other and giving them cover, working in pairs and in threes. We are going forward with that mentality.”

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