Casper Ankergen has hailed the team spirit which helped him through a tough time.

The Albion goalkeeper bounced back from a late error at Nottingham Forest to keep a clean sheet at Middlesbrough yesterday.

The Dane was standing in for Tomasz Kuszczak, who has an elbow injury.

Ankergren said of the Seagulls' keepers: “We look after each other very well, respect each other and help each other in training always.

“It’s a good squad of goalkeepers we’ve got here because everybody is pleased for the other one when he is doing well.

“I’m always the first one to congratulate Tomasz and hope he does well when he plays.

“When Peter (Brezovan) played at Huddersfield, straight away I texted him because I was so happy for him.

“That’s the way we do it here. We are all colleagues.”