Brighton news: Opinion – Doctor Albion helps another club

Brighton was nothing more than a small fishing village until the 18th century, when people began flocking to the town for the medicinal benefits believed to come from drinking and bathing in its seawater.

Fast forward 300 years or so and it is football teams who head to Brighton to cure ailments.

Lost nine games in a row? Not scored a Premier League goal for 830 minutes? Amex Stadium is the place to go.

Leicester became the latest to benefit from seeing Doctor Albion about their issues, breaking both their long losing streak and three-month wait to put the ball in the back of the net in a Premier League game.

This season is going to end with a significant gap between the relegation zone and the rest of the division. It is therefore fair to suggest this is collectively the worst bottom three since the Premier League came into being back in 1992.

And the Seagulls have not beaten one of them at home. Ipswich and Southampton also left Sussex with draws.

An appointment with Doctor Albion helped the Tractor Boys keep their first clean sheet of the season and claim their first away point in September. Saints ended a run of nine consecutive away defeats at the Amex in November.

Had Brighton beaten all three soon-to-be-relegated sides at home, they would be one point off the Champions League spots currently. If the Albion miss out on Europe this season, it is this failure to beat struggling opponents at home which will be most costly.

And it is why the remainder of the season looks troublesome. An outsider might look and think Brighton are in a good position with Liverpool and Newcastle the only top-10 sides left to play.

But Albion fans know that means four of their final six matches are the sort of games Fabian Hurzeler is yet to find a way to win. Now would be a good time to change that…

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