Jason Steele was not backwards in coming forwards when Wolves threatened to grab a win at the Amex.

The Albion goalkeeper went charging out of his area as Matheus Cunha bore down on goal.

Suitably startled, Cunha sent the ball far too wide and ended up shooting off target.

It was the most eye-catching moment of another solid performance with hands and feet by Steele – though this time he actually used neither.

That bold approach after Lewis Dunk had been beaten paid off and Steele believes showed the one-for-all Albion mindset as they go into the second part of their season.

The Seagulls goalkeeper said: “Listen, that’s the way we play.

“We’re aggressive, so when I see my skipper going out full pelt, I’m going with him, I’m backing him up.

“I can easily go back on my line and hide, and say ‘Come on then, let’s have a one-on-one,’ but I’m backing my team-mate up and probably made it harder for him if anything, I think.

“So I’m happy we kept a clean sheet. There’s a chance we could have lost that game.

“They have some really good individuals so yes, we move on to Saturday.”

With his hands, Steele made a couple of pretty sharp saves in the second half, albeit saves he would perhaps be expected to make.

With his feet, Steele looked to go long when the press closed in and he felt that helped open things up in the second half.

He said: “It was a bit easier in the first half because it was downwind, I think!

“It was windy out there second half.

“They went man to man, they came and had a go, so there was space in behind.

“In the end we did that a couple of times and they were a bit more reluctant to come out so far, which meant we could try and play through them a little more.”

Albion have had to change things tactically in the absence of wide players.

That would not normally affect a goalkeeper too much but Steele is the first line of attack.

We have seen him looking for runs by Kaoru Mitoma in the past, for example.

Steele said: “We work the same way, always the same way with the boss and it’s very tactical always.

“It has been since the minute he came in.

“We know what we’re doing out there, you can see.

“We have an identity, a plan.”

Albion’s 0-0 at West Ham felt like a game they should have won.

Or, at least, a game in which they were the only team who were really looking to win.

Wolves was different. While the styles were contrasting, Gary O’Neil had clearly given his side a plan by which they could take three points.

Steele was disappointed the three points did not stay at home but said: “Wolves are a good team and anybody who thinks that should be a walkover win doesn’t know the Premier League.

“They are well-drilled, well organised, tough to break through the middle and when we got on the side, they overloaded it as well.

“They are a good team with great players on the transition as well.

“It was a bit too much transitional at times, I would say, but we defended one v one situations really well. “We could have lost that game as well.

“Equally I’m not naive enough to say we aren’t frustrated that we didn’t win.

“We could have lost but, over the course of the game, we were in a really good situation but we didn’t quite get the luck or the bounce of the ball that you require.”