Chris Hughton fears his former club Spurs "could be at their most dangerous" after a hat-trick of defeats.

Saturday's Amex visitors have lost to Watford and Liverpool in the Premier League and Inter Milan in the Champions League.

It is Tottenham's worst run of results under Mauricio Pochettino (below left) and they last lost four in a row in March/April 2004.

The Argus: Albion boss Hughton said: "As manager of a club playing against them, my responsibility is to warn the team that these are a team who don't lose many games.

"By their standards they're having a more difficult time and that's the time perhaps when they could be at their most dangerous.

"They've got great quality, we know we'll have to play at a really good level to get something from the game.

"What I see at Tottenham at the moment are the normal things which happen in football.

"There are different levels, the expectations of managing a team in the top six are different to anyone else.

"When any team in the top six goes through a period, whether that's a couple of games or they lose a Champions League game, then they're going to be in the spotlight more than what we are here at Brighton.

"What generally happens because of the quality they've got is they come out of that one and it's probably in a few weeks or a month's time somebody else's turn.

"We never read too much into it. They have got top quality players and on any day they can turn it on."