It is too easy to say Albion’s season will not be decided by what they do against the top teams.

All games are an opportunity, although some opportunities are bigger than others.

All points count, be they deserved or not.

Especially when you are not beating the teams at the bottom.

Albion, against a good side who stepped up a gear in the second half, missed a chance to increase their points tally here.

Only by one. Not the three their distant fans would have hoped for after a pleasing first half.

But we are in for another long week after a defensive breakdown right at the end saw even that draw slip through their fingers.

Sometimes you have to admire the quality in front of you, such as the move and finish which saw Leicester cancel out Adam Lallana’s superbly taken early strike.

But you can also look at your own efforts to stop that quality – or to deny gifts.

It still feels like Albion have to do an awful lot, play very well for a long time, to get much, or anything, out of games.

Fulham have been the same in some recent matches.

Others not so far above the dogfight seem to be able to emerge with a point, or more, after constructing very little.

Youri Tielemans’ pass and Kelechi Iheanacho’s finish for the equaliser were exceptional.

Jamie Vardy’s trickery to spark the late pressure which brought Daniel Amartey’s winner was also very good.

But Albion lost precision in the pass and intensity in their passing in the second period.

It should have cost them two points but ended up leaving them empty-handed.

They lost control of the game after the break and the changes they made did not alter that.

There was one period after the equaliser when it seemed they might get back on top.

But Leicester had the big finish.

Head coach Graham Potter said: “It’s impossible to control a Premier League game for 90 minutes.

“The opposition are always going to have a good spell.

“I thought we defended well in the first half. We attacked but I still thought we missed opportunities to create. We missed a few easy passes and that continued into the second half.

“Of course the opposition, who are second in the table, have responded to being a goal down.

“They are going to raise their level and try to play better and get back into the game, which they did.

“Then we have to see that period out or be better ourselves and we weren’t able to do that.

“We have to do that better but there is not a single solution which fixes all our problems.

“In this game for us to get wins, to get points, we have to be really good. I don’t think we were terrible. I think maybe a draw was about right over the course of the game.”

That point seemed at risk when Dunk lunged in to stop Vardy.

Replays suggested Dunk got a touch on the ball as well as the man.

That was enough to persuade Michael Oliver to award a corner and video assistant Stuart Attwell that no clear and obvious error had been made.

But, when Robert Sanchez missed a corner that followed in that period of pressure, to spoil an otherwise impressive evening, the ball bounced in off Daniel Amartey at the far post.

Amartey also played a part in the equaliser.

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He blocked Lallana’s intended through ball and that led to Tielemans playing a disguised pass inside the sliding Dunk for Iheanacho to finish in style.

Lallana was damning of Albion’s second-half work – and was more blunt than Potter.

That might have been because Lallana was interviewed straight after coming off the pitch.

It might have been because he has a different way of putting his point across.

Both men will have been equally disappointed.

Lallana said: “Second half we were poor. It almost felt like we had won the game at half-time. If you drop your levels you get punished.

“There have been games we’ve felt hard done by but today doesn’t feel like that. We didn’t perform well enough in the second half.

“We’ve proven we can get results against big teams. We all dropped off a couple of percent. We were too passive and we got punished.”

It was certainly easy to think during that promising first half that Albion needed a two-goal lead.

But they have only enjoyed that situation once since they beat Bournemouth at the very end of 2019.

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Lallana almost got the second with a glancing header against the far post from Pascal Gross’s free-kick.

Neal Maupay thought he had it when he finished with unusual composure after Lallana had sent him through.

The Frenchman was, however, a pace offside.

Leicester’s one first-half threat saw Sanchez dive to his left to save well from Sidnei Tavares.

Lallana, while less of an influence in the second half, had Albion’s only effort of note with a low shot which Kasper Schmeichel saved.

The former Liverpool man’s performance will have given hope for the run-in, starting at his old club Southampton.

But it was hard to feel positive after this third successive defeat.

However good the opposition.

Albion: Sanchez; Veltman, White, Dunk, Burn; Gross, Bissouma (Jahanbakhsh 90), Mac Allister (Alzate 68), Trossard; Lallana; Maupay (Welbeck 79). Subs Not Used: Steele, Moder, Izquierdo, Tau, Propper,Zeqiri.

Goals: Lallana 10.

Leicester: Schmeichel; Amartey, Fofana, Soyuncu; Ndidi; Ricardo Pereira, Tavares (Albrighton 72), Tielemans, Castagne; Iheanacho (Choudhury 90), Vardy. Subs Not Used: Ward, Mendy, Fuchs, Thomas, Leshabela, Daley-Campbell, Flynn.

Booked: Tielemans foul.

Goals: Iheanacho 62, Amartey 87.

Referee: Michael Oliver.