Sam Baldock believes Albion can follow last season’s blueprint for success – until the goals start flying in again.
The Seagulls frontman is confident his side have goalscoring potential in attack, despite struggling to hit the net of late.
But he will be happy to follow last year’s early-season pattern of tight wins if it gets the Seagulls right back into the promotion race.
Baldock hopes to face Barnsley on Saturday after returning to action in Tuesday’s 2-1 defeat by Reading in the League Cup.
He watched 1-0 wins over Burton and Huddersfield and said: “They feel a bit like the performances of last season, when we won a lot of games by the odd goal.
“That wasn’t a bad start so hopefully we get back on that track.
“You don’t want to have to grind out results. You would much rather be 3-0 up at half-time but it doesn’t always happen that way.
“However we can, we will try and get the three points.”
Baldock expects Barnsley to come out on the attack as they look to recover from their own 2-1 home defeat to Reading – in the Championship last Saturday.
The Reds have won at Preston and Wolves in their last two away outings, the latter by a 4-0 margin.
Baldock said: “From what I am hearing, they are playing really good football and scoring lots of goals.
“Teams have come here and respected us. Huddersfield went a slightly different route to their normal brand of football.
“They nullified the game but we managed to get a victory that we ground out.
“I think Barnsley will come and be themselves and be the team that has got them where they are.”
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