GLENN MURRAY insists he is not surprised by his goal tally for Albion.

The striker slotted his 21st of the season in Friday’s 2-1 win at Queens Park Rangers.

He also scored in the game before against Blackburn Rovers at the Amex to reach 20 for the third time in seven seasons for the Premier League-bound Seagulls and Crystal Palace.

Murray, who returned to the club from Bournemouth last summer, told The Argus: “It was the aim. I’ve said all along, I sat down and it wasn’t a move of convenience.

“It was a move based on what the group had achieved last year, gone so close to doing, and the wingers we’ve got and the forward players we’ve got.

“We can create chances in abundance. I believed this could happen.

“You never know whether you are going to stay injury-free. There are lots of ifs and buts.”

Murray exchanged passes with strike partner Tomer Hemed to score at Loftus Road from just outside the penalty area.

He said: “That’s almost a collector’s item! There are not many out on the edge of the 18-yard box.”

Murray needs one goal at Wolves on Good Friday (5pm) to level his tally when Albion won the League One title in 2010-11 and two to equal Bill Curry’s club record at Championship level, set in 1959-60.

He will be partnered again by 14-goal Hemed at Molineux in the continuing absence of the injured Sam Baldock.

David Stockdale, included in the Football League team of the year with Championship player of the year Anthony Knockaert, seeks his 20th clean sheet in the West Midlands and Albion’s 21st overall.

Promotion will be sealed by their vastly superior goal difference if they win and Huddersfield are beaten earlier at home by Preston.