Pervis Estupinan’s role in a great Albion comeback was praised by his former boss.

The Ecuador left-back went on at half-time with his team 2-0 down to Tottenham.

He was involved in the first two goals as the Seagulls came back to win 3-2.

Estupinan arrived from Villarreal two years ago in the final weeks of Graham Potter’s tenure at Albion.

He has suffered from injuries over the last year but current boss Fabian Huerzeler felt he was back to his old self against Spurs.

Potter, appearing on BBC’s Match Of The Day, told viewers: “He brings a physicality.

“He can match Tottenham’s physicality.

“In the first half, you found often the full-back was having problems 2v1, overloading.

“I think he just gets on the front foot.

“He is able to match their intensity.

“And then he has got that left foot.

“A couple of times the goals have come from sliding passes down to Mitoma.

“All of a sudden Mitoma can now move inside. He can now threaten the back line of Tottenham’s defence.

“So I thought he made a good impact.”

Potter thought Albion were still subdued in the first half by the previous week’s 4-2 defeat at Chelsea.

He said: “Credit to Brighton. They really worked hard and did well at half-time.

“You could see the first half was probably affected by the previous match against Chelsea.

“At the start of the game they were attacked in behind a few times.

“So psychologically probably the players there at half-time are thinking it’s not looking so good.

“The second goal, as soon as you play through the team and how the goalkeeper let the ball in, it felt like a weak goal.

“At half-time they really made a difference in terms of, ‘Let’s make this about emotion, let’s get some intensity into our game’.

“And they imposed themselves on the game really well in the second half.”