Albion manager Mark McGhee today saluted his "superb" flying Dutchman Michel Kuipers.

The big keeper made a string of saves in a second-half battering as Adam Virgo's first-half header earned the Seagulls a hard-fought 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest last night.

Captain Danny Cullip missed the dying stages of the match with a head wound, sustained when sub Marlon King tried an overhead kick.

McGhee said: "In a game like this you need your goalkeeper to have a big game. The last time I won here with Millwall, Tony Warner had a fantastic match and Michel did the same.

"You're going to come under pressure, they are going to have chances and your goalkeeper has to withstand that, and he did. He was superb."

Albion have now won three and drawn one of the last four away matches and are up three places to 16th in the Coca-Cola Championship.

Kuipers said: "We are very excited every time we play away from home because we are playing in great stadiums and that really gives us a buzz.

"At Gillingham on Saturday I did not have a lot of saves to make, but concentration was very important in that game.

"This was the opposite, I did not have to think about concentrating because I was busy."

Kuipers pulled off a miraculous stop from a Gareth Taylor header in the closing stages. "After that I was jumping in the air," he said.

"When a striker scores a goal he is allowed to celebrate but every goalkeeper would celebrate a save like that one."

Cullip finally has his delayed hernia operation today, which will rule him out for six weeks.