Mark McGhee rallied his relegation-threatened troops with a team talk on the pitch after Albion's latest defeat.

The frustrated manager could not wait until reaching the dressing room to get his points across.

He took the unusual step of gathering the players together, yards away from the Seagulls supporters, following Saturday's 1-0 reverse against Plymouth at Home Park.

"It was just frustration," McGhee said. "They were just there and I said 'come here', because I wanted to say what I felt there and then.

"I said to the players we showed again we are still in it. We showed we have the desire and the bottle and I think we are still together.

That's the important thing and that gives us a chance.

"As long as they are prepared to work as hard as they did something will change. We will win a game somewhere.

"It might not be a game we expect to win and we might not win it the way we hope we are going to win it but something will change for us if we are prepared to work as hard as that and stay as a group. We will come through this."

Albion had chances, the best of them falling to Joe Gatting, before Lilian Nalis took advantage of a mistake by Wayne Henderson late in the first half to sentence the Seagulls to a sixth Championship defeat in succession and eighth in a row away from home.

They remain five points adrift of safety with nine matches left after Sheffield Wednesday were also beaten 1-0, at Cardiff.

Paul McShane and Gary Hart return from bans for Saturday's visit by sixth-placed Preston.