As youngest XIs go, that sent out by Graham Potter at Leicester was actually quite old.

Sky Sports viewers were told the average age of the Seagulls’ starters on Tuesday was 25 years and 166 days.

That was lowered by the introduction of, most notably, Tariq Lamptey and Aaron Connolly for Ezequiel Schelotto and Pascal Gross compared to the line-up which walked out to play Arsenal.

But then age isn’t everything. Experience is more significant.

The two reasons why age is ever referred to are in reference to energy and know-how.

In terms of experience perhaps more than age, the key fact it is that six of the ten Albion outfield starters on Tuesday had never played in our Premier League before this season.

Some have played in other Premier League equivalents but not ours.

That suggests, as Graham Potter has said a couple of times this week, they can only get better.

Or they can only learn how to better use their qualities in the contexts of the Albion set-up and our Premier League.

The observation on Sky Sports that Tuesday’s XI was Albion’s youngest in the Prem caught the attention of several viewers.

They included Albion historian Tim Carder. Tim confirmed it was the youngest Premier League – but not top-flight – starting XI the club has fielded.

That is perhaps not surprising.

Chris Hughton’s preference was for older players. During Albion’s pursuit of promotion between 2015 and 2017, they were at times the oldest team in the Championship.

Until Tuesday, the lowest average age for an Albion starting XI in the Premier League was 25 years and 278 days, set at home to Aston Villa in January.

That is considerably younger than how things ended up on Tuesday.

The introduction of subs including Glenn Murray and Dale Stephens took the average age to 28 years and 81 days by full-time at the King Power.

And it is, of course, a squad game. Now more than ever.

Albion have generally had a younger line-up this year.

Bruno’s retirement and a lesser role for Murray have seen to that.

Their youngest XI came after their third substitution was made at home to Chelsea on New Year’s Day.

The average age fell to 25 years and 120 days when Alireza Jahanbakhsh replaced Aaron Mooy on 68 minutes and went on to score his overhead kick equaliser.

All of which shows that, while the general trend of younger or older teams can tell you about a certain manager’s philosophy, whether a certain XI tips you past a record-breaking number or not can be down to coincidence.

Of course Albion are now in the happy position where they can choose what vintage of players they go for.

While fans like to see younger talent, often it can be forced upon a club by economical reasons.

That has certainly been the case for Albion at times in the last 30 years.

Their youngest ever league team was fielded versus Stockport in 1993 and had an average age of 21 years and 155 days.

In terms of all competitive football, that was beaten by the Carabao Cup team versus Aston Villa earlier this season after the second change was made, seeing Romaric Yapi replace Shane Duffy.

The age then was 21 years and 91 days, though only for ten minutes until the third substitution was made.

Albion’s oldest starting team in the Prem was 29 years, 140 days when Hughton went for experience to grind out a point at Wolves in April of last season.

That rose to 29 years, 251 days for an hour after Beram Kayal’s early introduction for Davy Propper.

The oldest team drew 0-0 away – just like the youngest.