Who is going to be Albion's Matthew Upson at Middlesbrough?

The former England centre-half was the last Seagull to score a winning goal at the Riverside Stadium.

Upson headed in a corner with four minutes left to sneak victory on Teesside.

That was in December 2013, during the season that Oscar Garcia's side squeezed into the play-offs.

Automatic promotion is the prize on offer in tomorrow's collision to join Burnley in the Premier League next season.

Somebody has to score for Chris Hughton's side to get the victory they need to break Boro hearts.

Who can be a hero, ensure they are remembered forever?

The good news is Albion are the highest scorers in the Championship with 71 goals.

And it is almost impossible for Boro to know where the danger is going to come from.

The obvious answer is top scorer Tomer Hemed with 17 goals. Particularly as the Israeli is also the penalty taker and has been on target four times in the last six away games.

Hemed has scored more than twice as many goals as any other player in Hughton's squad.

His nearest pursuer is Bobby Zamora with seven - and he will not be involved because of the hip injury which has kept him out since March.

Zamora is not the only one. Hughton has lost almost 20 per cent of the goals that have helped Albion to the brink of club history.

Solly March, with three, has been sidelined since December by serious knee damage. The next time he will be seen could be in the club's first ever fixture in the Premier League.

Lewis Dunk would miss out on such a memorable moment, courtesy of his red card against Derby on Monday, his second of the season doubling the punishment from a one-match suspension to two.

Apart from missing one half of the cohesive centre-half partnership developed by Dunk with Connor Goldson, Albion are also denied his aerial power at set pieces.

Last season's leading marksman has scored three goals since the end of February, two of them important ones in consecutive away wins at Birmingham and Nottingham Forest last month.

In the absence of the top scoring defender, Dunk's accomplice Goldson is the likeliest member of the back four to find the net, as he has in two of the last six games against Birmingham and QPR.

Bruno popped up with one in the rout of Fulham. Fellow full-backs Liam Rosenior and Gaetan Bong, Dunk's replacement Gordon Greer and versatile Spanish veteran Inigo Calderon are the only outfielders set to feature in the squad on Saturday who have drawn a blank.

If things get desperate in the dying stages, David Stockdale could even be a threat, as he was at the corner from which on-loan James Wilson salvaged a draw in stoppage time against Derby four days ago.

Stockdale's heroics are likely to be reserved for stopping a goal, not scoring one. Wilson, on the other hand, has five now. Sam Baldock, his rival to partner Hemed, has four.

The menace to Middlesbrough in wide areas is multiple, from the start and from the bench. Anthony Knockaert has also contributed five goals, four of them in the last six matches, and Jiri Skalak two in the last three.

Knockaert is still one behind Jamie Murphy, two ahead of Kazenga LuaLua.

Dale Stephens is bracketed with Murphy on six goals, his regular central midfield associate Beram Kayal has a couple and Steve Sidwell chipped in with a vital injury time winner at Forest.

Another loan signing should not be forgotten. Dutch winger Rajiv van La Parra, borrowed from Wolves, boosted the overall tally by scoring in back-to-back away draws at Derby and QPR in December.

Albion might not need to score at all if Boro do it for them. Bristol City's Mark Little and Liam Cooper, of Leeds, both increased the total with own goals.

Hughton has far more hope than that within his ranks. Opportunity knocks, from all parts of the pitch, for one or more of his players to be headline-makers.