Chris Hughton tells Brighton to keep their foot on the throttle despite securing Premier League safety

Albion secured their Premier League status with two games to spare by deservedly beating Manchester United on Friday night

Hughton's side are already safe with two games to spare (Reuters)

Chris Hughton has urged his Brighton players to end the season in style and avoid a repeat of last year's complacency which cost them the Championship title.

Albion secured their Premier League status with two games to spare by deservedly beating Manchester United at a raucous Amex Stadium on Friday night.

That result has eased the pressure on the Seagulls ahead of daunting trips to champions Manchester City and Champions League finalists Liverpool.

Manager Hughton wants to retain the feel-good factor at the Sussex club by producing two good displays in the north-west and referenced last year's late-season collapse which saw them drop to second place below Newcastle after taking one point from the final three games having secured promotion.

Brighton beat United last time out to confirm their Premier League safety (Getty)

"Life's good at the moment, it's what we've worked incredibly hard to do," said Hughton ahead of Wednesday's trip to Pep Guardiola's City. "It's relentless the quality that we've been up against, week in, week out. But I think we've got a group of lads that have acquitted themselves really well so it's a nice feel at the moment.

"We want to finish the season well. We didn't finish it particularly well last season after getting promotion. Even if that's just making a good account of ourselves in this last two games.

"You can't make sure it happens but you just keep beating the same drum and maybe drum home to them the example last season when we took our foot off the pedal.

"The difference this time is the magnitude of the teams, arguably two of the hardest away games that you can have, so that in itself is a great challenge and there won't be anybody who doesn't want to play in these games."

Albion are safe with two games to spare (Getty)

Albion travel to the Etihad Stadium with free-scoring City needing to win in order to keep alive their hopes of reaching 100 points.

Guardiola's men were held to a surprise goalless draw by struggling Huddersfield on Sunday as they dropped league points in front of their own fans for just the third time this season.

And Hughton fears his team could face a backlash.

"They tend to bounce back very quickly and I think that's the philosophy they have at the club," he said. "They have a manager who demands that and that's the reason why they've been so brilliant this season.

"They can have an off day but generally they bounce back from that. But we don't expect less than an incredibly difficult game."