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I am pretty sure if anyone at Brighton had been told that by the end of game seven, of a new season, with a new manager and loads of new players, they would still be unbeaten then they would have snatched your hand off.

Seventh in the Premier League, through to the last 16 of the Carabao Cup, 15 goals scored and three clean sheets, the bare statistics are perfectly acceptable.

The problem is that successive home draws against a promoted team and one that has struggled for the previous two seasons is a bit underwhelming - and that some of the new players have not had opportunity to make much of an impact.

Not for the first time in recent years, Brighton need to take a step back.

Fabian Hurzeler is getting used to a new league and, quite obviously, new players. Time is a precious commodity in modern football but that is what Hurzeler needs.

As a club, it felt Brighton underwent a reset in the summer, using finance generated by big-name sales in previous seasons to fund a spending spree that will steer them through the next few years rather than weeks or months.

There are bound to be bumps in the road and Hurzeler is bound to encounter problems he was not anticipating.

Brighton's hierarchy know this and will not rush to judgement. The fans have to adopt the same approach.