Albion manager Martin Hinshelwood has urged his injury-hit team not to be overawed by Saturday's trip to First Division pacesetters Portsmouth.

He wants his players to "have a go" at Harry Redknapp's star-studded leaders in the sell-out showdown at Fratton Park.

Pompey are hot favourites to get the win they need to equal the best start in their history as the makeshift Seagulls seek to end a run of three straight defeats and four games without a goal.

Hinshelwood, former Portsmouth reserve and youth team coach, said: "They have got a lot of experience and Premiership players probably earning quite a lot of money, but that's down to them if they can afford it and good luck to them.

"We just have to prepare right and have a go. These are the games our players should look forward to playing in against the quality they have got.

"This is where you want to be, in the First Division against a team at the top of the League in front of a full house."