Albion's blank sheet at Millwall has NOT sounded the death knell for playing with two strikers.

Manager Chris Hughton has revealed he will use the 4-4-2 system again.

Hughton changed course on Tuesday by pairing the recalled Leon Best with Craig Mackail-Smith.

It made no difference to Albion’s away goal drought as they failed to score for the fifth time in six matches in the 0-0 draw.

Hughton told The Argus: “In my time here so far I have tended to play one off, a 4-4-1-1 or a 4-2-3-1, but formations are always about the abilities of players and how you use the system.

“Is it a system I would use again? Yes it is and I think if our performance as a whole had been better and our passing as a whole had been better it’s a formation we could have capitalised on a bit more than we did.”

On-loan Best is barred from facing parent club Blackburn today. Hughton could go with Mackail-Smith and Chris O’Grady at Ewood Park or have Joao Teixeira playing off of one of them.

Hughton used O’Grady and Teixeira that way after substituting Best and Mackail-Smith deep into the second half at Millwall.