Albion showed steel and fighting spirit to come from 3-1 down against Wolves and possibly re-ignite their season.

Now, as the dust settles after that 3-3 draw, those same qualities can be applied to a different problem.

And that is how to stay in front after taking a lead.

The Seagulls will struggle to stay up if they cannot make the most of the hard-earned advantages they enjoy.

They are the only Premier League team to have dropped points in as many as five of the matches in which they scored first.

On a more positive note, they are showing a great knack of responding when they go behind.

They lead the Premier League for equalising goals scored with eight – five at home and three away – although those goals have not always ended up preventing defeat.

Games at home to Manchester United and away to Everton and Spurs saw them get back on level terms only to end up losing.

Aaron Connolly’s 13th-minute goal against Wolves gave them their seventh 1-0 lead of the season.

They have converted just two of them into wins.

Even one of those two saw them let the initial advantage slip at Aston Villa before responding to win through Solly March’s memorable strike.

Other matches which saw them score first were draws with Wolves, West Ham and West Brom and defeats to Manchester United and Southampton.

Four of those five were at the Amex.

Those seven 1-0 leads are more than the three teams below them in the table have enjoyed. It is also more than Burnley, Wolves and, perhaps most surprisingly, Manchester United, each of whom have opened the scoring on six occasions.

The Seagulls’ tally of 1.29 points per game from matches in which they scored first is better only than Sheffield United, whose only point in four such matches came at the Amex and are therefore on 0.25.

In total, Albion have gone ahead in games nine times – not necessarily 1-0 - but have seen seven of those advantages wiped out.

That equates to 77.8% of their leads not lasting.

If you exclude Sheffield United, who remain winless and have therefore never maintained a lead until full-time, Albion’s record is the worst in the Prem by a distance.

West Brom have blown 66.67% of their leads but it is a small sample size as they have only gone in front on three occasions.

Fulham have gone ahead five times and conceded three equalisers, so 60%.

At the other end of the scale, Aston Villa have won all eight games in which they led. They have yet to concede an equaliser this season.

Leicester have gone ahead 11 times and only been pegged back once.

Perhaps surprisingly, the only team to have conceded more equalisers at home than Albion are Liverpool with five (but they have led on 12 occasions at Anfield).

Skipper Lewis Dunk admitted after the Wolves game: “If you look at all three of those goals, they are not good enough by our standards.

“We made it so hard for ourselves in the first half. We were comfortable passing it around which they let you.

“But we were 1-0 up then a click of the fingers and we were 3-1 down and we were like ‘what’s going on here?’.”

One obvious reason why Albion concede so many equalisers is they very rarely turn a one-goal lead into something more substantial.

Going two or three goals up is easily said, not so easy to do.

The Seagulls went in front on 20 occasions last season and only added to that lead four times – in wins over Watford, Tottenham, Norwich and Bournemouth.

Remember the relief around the Amex when Aaron Mooy guided home that superb second goal to kill of stubborn Bournemouth just over a year ago?

This season they have only led by more than a single goal on one occasion, in the 3-0 success at Newcastle.

But there is more positive news - if going 1-0 down can be turned into a positive.

After conceding first, Albion’s haul of 0.38 points per game (from three draws) is better than seven teams and the same as Newcastle.

Fulham, who are the next visitors to the Amex, have not taken a point in eight matches in which they conceded first.

MOLUMBY GOES OUT ON LOAN

Manchester United have become known as the comeback kings but even their six equalisers is two fewer than Albion have managed.

This has, of course, been an unpredictable season as action takes place without fans.

But, on the whole, maybe not as unpredictable or roller coaster as you might think.

So far, 12.1% of all matches have been won by teams conceding the first goal.

That is actually only a slight increase on last term (11.8%).

And not a huge step up from what might be termed the last complete normal season.

Back in 2018-19, 10.8% of the 380 matches were won by the team who went 1-0 down.

The key for Albion is to change their own tendency - and stay in front when they get in front.