Billy Gilmour is loving his key role in Albion ’s midfield – after two huge summer sales.

The Albion man has excelled given more chances after the departures of Moises Caicedo and Alexis Mac Allister.

Gilmour is expected to start against Marseille this evening.

He said: “We lost two great players, Moises and Alexis, but when you get the opportunity to step up, a bit of responsibility, to be the man in midfield, with Pascal (Gross) – and Pascal does it week in, week out – you have to step up and be counted.

“I am enjoying it – enjoying playing, working hard with my team, the staff, the manager and I hope I can continue to do the right thing.

“I think I am progressing well – confidence, playing in the right way, understanding how we play, so it has been good.

“Of course we want to continue for the rest of the season as a whole as well.

“We have got so many competitions as well.

“We want to keep doing well and get back to winning ways.”

Gilmour will go up against a Marseille side coached by Gennaro Gattuso, who played for Rangers.

The Scotland international said: “Of course I’ve watched YouTube clips of Gattuso. My Granda always told me about the old players at Rangers.

“But Gattuso was a very aggressive player and also very good football player with the ball so to add parts of that my game is nice.

“He was a top player for Rangers and had a great career.”