Albion are handing a debut to their new French goalie Florent Chaigneau in the Carling Cup at Shrewsbury tomorrow night.

The 21-year-old giant from Rennes will be between the posts for the first round tie at Gay Meadow as Aston Villa have refused the Seagulls permission to play Wayne Henderson.

Villa enter the competition in the next round and do no want the on-loan Henderson cup-tied.

Albion are still trying to get the all-clear from the Premiership club to keep Republic of Ireland under 21 international Henderson for a second month.

Chaigneau takes over against League Two Shrewsbury after appearing in the squad for the first time as cover on the bench for Henderson in Saturday's 2-0 Championship defeat at Hull.

The Frenchman will be the seventh different goalkeeper used by Albion this year. Henderson, Alan Blayney, Rami Shaaban and David Yelldell have occupied the role since Michel Kuipers suffered serious shoulder damage against Nottingham Forest in January and Chris May took his place.

Federico Turienzo misses out again tomorrow through injury. The Argentinian target man was in contention for his full debut at Hull until hurting a hamstring in the Reserves last week.

Only Mark McGhee's former club Millwall are below Albion in the table after four matches, but the manager remains confident about his side surviving again.

"The one thing we learnt last season was that after 30 nights of disappointment we had a big party and that's what it is about," McGhee said. "We are going to lose games, of course we are, but it's how we deal with that."

Guy Butters is hoping Albion's fortune is about to change He said: "Dean White (coach) said afterwards we will play worse than that and win. We cannot wait for one of those sort of games."