Murray: I thought I had scored a wonder goal

The £300,000 striker combined a cool head with a red hot right boot to fire his side back on level terms in Tuesday's extraordinary 2-1 defeat of Cheltenham.

It was a hit and miss night for Murray. He should, perhaps, have done better with a first-half chance which saw his close-range effort hacked off the line.

He should certainly have made a cleaner contact on a second-half opening, rather than somewhat scuffing a left-foot shot from a great position and allowing Shane Higgs an easy save.

The goal was great and a volley which extended Higgs low to his left was a decent attempt.

And then there was the first-half chip which he was convinced had dragged Albion level after that early lapse in midfield and defence which allowed Steve Brooker the freedom of Withdean as he put Cheltenham ahead.

Having combined with strike partner Nickly Forster, Murray kept his cool and guided the ball over the advanced Higgs, only to see it hit the bar and bounce down to the relieved keeper.

Murray, who now has three goals in four starts for the Seagulls, said: "To be honest I thought it was going to dip in.

"I think I was more or less wheeling away to celebrate but then I looked back to see him (Higgs) catch the ball.

"There were a few near misses but I think on most of the attempts I hit the target so I'm going to take the positives out of that.

"The keeper did his job but luckily enough for me I kept going and I got the one that mattered."

Murray was right to say Higgs did his job. Best of all, the Cheltenham keeper blocked a full-blooded blast from Forster when it seemed the home skipper must score.

It was from that rebound that Jeremy Gill managed to clear from Murray when it appeared the striker might blast home.

Murray also had a header easily held by Higgs right on half-time as he stretched to get some sort of decent contact on a looping Dean Cox cross.

Forster was in on that move too, as he was with all Murray's best moments apart from that rather route-one leveller.

It is a striking partnership which Tuesday's goalscorer feels can only get better.

He said: "I think it's building all the time. That's our fourth game but it will continue to improve.

"It's very early days. We've got a run of games at home and hopefully the partnership will blossom in those games."

It was cheers in the end but the front two were not exempt from scathing criticism from the stands at times as the fans lost patience with their team.

There were boos at half-time, sarcastic cheers when Albion managed to string together a few simple passes and plenty of moans before Murray's twist, turn and blast changed the course of the evening.

Some Albion players ran off to the changing room at a pretty brisk pace at half-time.

Murray said: "The crowd are always happy when you are winning and in the end that's what we did.

"When we train the crowd aren't there so you've just got to blank out the negativity at half-time.

"You just want to get back out for the second half to challenge them.

"We knew we were good enough to beat them and we came out and did that in the second half."

So what about those goals, one of which Murray knew an awful lot about and one of which he was more sketchy.

Strike one, first of all, in which he turned Gavin Caines inside out before producing an explosive finish as Alan Wright came across from full back.

He said: "I knew there was one defender and I could feel, I think it was their left-back, who was coming back into play.

"The closer I got to goal, I knew the less reaction time the keeper would have.

"I caught it nicely and it ended up in the top corner.

"I could see where the keeper was and it was just put it either side of him."

And the second? Did it cross the line?

"I had the original shot," he pointed out. "I was somewhere near the penalty spot but I'm not really bothered whether it went in. It counted."

How do you rate Glenn Murray's contribution so far?