Graham Potter believes Albion are not doing much different now to earlier in the season.

But it’s amazing the effect a few wins can have.

The Seagulls are unbeaten in six matches as they prepare to host Crystal Palace on Monday.

They have won three times and amassed 12 points in that period.

It is a run which has given some reward to a lot of hard work, good intentions and promising signs which have often been there.

Yet it is also one which underlines the narrow margins of the Premier League.

Their six-match sequence is the club’s best in elite company for almost 40 years.

Yet it comes at a time when they have only scored four goals in seven games (and conceded just one in six).

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They lead the Premier League in draws and four of their five wins have been by a single-goal margin.

A draw at home to Aston Villa is perhaps a ‘normal’ result - though not on the balance of play across those 90 minutes.

But the five unbeaten matches before that?

Well tell someone who doesn’t know any better those five fixtures - Leeds, Liverpool, Tottenham, Burnley and Fulham - and ask them to pick the three wins and two draws.

Recent results will tell you this is Albion’s most consistent run in the top flight since Julio Iglesias and The Human League were fighting it out to be top of the charts.

(Consistent in a positive sense, at least).

Potter will tell you the consistency has been there all along.

And in fact he did tell us that as the media linked up with Albion’s training complex via Zoom yesterday.

The Seagulls boss said: “I think that consistency has been there with us throughout the course of the season in terms of our approach to every day and trying to improve.

“Along the way you face situations where you have to adapt around injuries and other things but that all means that the way you work with the group is really important.

“To have that collective understanding of what you’re trying to do makes it easier to find solutions when you go through tough moments.

“We live in a simple world of if you lose then you’re bad and if you win then you’re good. All of a sudden we’re ‘good’!

“But we haven’t done anything significantly different to when we were ‘bad’.

“That’s the world we’re in and it helps when you get results because that helps belief and confidence.

“But we know we have to start again on Monday because you don’t get anything in this league for something you did a couple days ago.”