Hughton Points The Finger At Sloppy Defending!

Yet, with Claudio Caçapa pressed into a holding midfield role by the absence of the suspended Danny Guthrie and Joey Barton, United had an extra defender in their line-up.

Chris Hughton: "We have a great group of lads and felt we had a team on the pitch that was good enough to get a result.

"We had to play a central defender in centre midfielder, which was a blow to us, but still we felt we could contain them.

"We knew they would have a spring in their step because they had a new manager but despite that, we cannot defend like we did.