Mats Wieffer says the Dutch connection has helped him settle in with Albion on and off the pitch.

The midfielder is in the squad the Netherlands as they face Hungary in Amsterdam this evening.

Bart Verbruggen starts in goal for the Oranje while Jan Paul van Hecke is likely to be among the subs.

Joel Veltman and Dutch-born Turkey international Ferdi Kadioglu are also among the Albion ranks.

All of which has helped Wieffer feel at home with the Seagulls since his summer move from Feyenoord.

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He said: “Yes, I like it and I like the club. Everybody helps you.

“The intensity in training is good and also a it’s nice place to live, close to London for my girlfriend.

“She likes it as well and we have settled in.

“There are a lot of Dutch people here so everything is good, we went out the ten of us, five players and our girlfriends.”

Wieffer has been coming off the bench of late for his club and has welcomed the challenge, even in testing circumstances which have, infamously, not always always worked out well.

He said: “Everybody is always telling you it’s really high intensity so it’s what I expected before but sometimes, especially if you come on in the middle of the game, you feel as if it’s going really fast.

“If you start the game, you come into the rhythm more, but if you come on after sixty minutes, especially like last weekend at Liverpool, you really feel the intensity is high, you’re going up and down.

“You come in and it’s the heat of the moment so you have to be there mentally straight away, that’s the main thing.

“Also in the last few games when that happened I had to defend a lot.

“Against Newcastle and Tottenham we were in front when I came on so you have to cover and run a lot, but if that’s what I have to do then I’ll do it.”

Wieffer has been impressed by opponents in the opening weeks of the season.

He added: “Chelsea, but we were standing on a really high line and they really recognised it and played every ball over the top so we had a lot of problems with that.

“But they had a lot of people on the pitch who saw it straight away and that is something different here in the Premier League.

“In the Dutch league, if the coach doesn’t tell players to do something, they won’t do it, because they don’t see it.

“And I thought Nottingham were quite good, on counter-attacks especially.

“If we lost the ball, their transition to attacking play was very quick.”