With improvement called for after the 1-1 home draw with Leicester City in midweek, we were bright in our attacking play and deserved the advantage given to us by Samuel Shashoua five minutes before the break.
However, the Seagulls restored parity three minutes later through Stephan Ljubicic after we failed to clear our lines on the right and the home side grabbed a second with 19 minutes remaining after we held onto possession at the back for too long, with Charlie Ferguson needing no second invitation to win the ball and eventually lash beyond Alfie Whiteman.
Determined to take something from the game, we piled forward in the closing stages and the hosts were hanging on by the skin of their teeth at times, but a combination of a heavily-manned defence and the second ball just not falling in our favour saw us kept at bay.