You would be hard-pressed to find anybody who would have predicted Glenn Murray scoring twice as many goals as Harry Kane five games into the Premier League season.

Even harder pressed to envisage Shane Duffy would be alongside the World Cup golden boot winner.

Yet that is the situation as the respective spearheads of their teams oppose each other at the Amex this evening.

Albion marksman Murray is joint second on four goals with Romelu Lukaku, Sadio Mane and Aleksandar Mitrovic.

Eden Hazard leads the early list on five, with Kane trailing in joint 16th for Tottenham on two.

That is the same number as the Seagulls' Republic of Ireland central defender Duffy (below right). He will be trying to stop Kane adding to his last away goal at club level, in the 1-1 draw for Spurs at the Amex in April.

The Argus: Kane scored an incredible 52 goals in 59 appearances last season, six of them for England in Russia in the summer.

He has gone four games without a goal for club and country since scoring in Tottenham's impressive win against Manchester United at Old Trafford at the end of August.

If Kane draws a blank again at the Amex this evening, it will be his longest dry spell since England's disastrous European Championships in 2016 under Roy Hodgson.

His lean patch has prompted talk of fatigue and needing a rest but Albion boss and former Spurs stalwart Chris Hughton expects Kane to be back amongst the goals soon. He just hopes the return to form does not happen tonight.

Hughton said: "Certainly those at Tottenham know Harry Kane's situation far better than me, but I don't think there are any doubters.

"Everybody knows the quality he has got, everybody knows the desire he has to play and to score goals.

"He's a striker, there isn't any striker that hasn’t had a lean spell or a disappointing spell. There isn't one around.

"And it all changes. Hopefully not on Saturday, but he starts scoring goals again and it's about somebody else.

"The best people to deal with any situation on a player that's getting a fair bit in the media are the player himself and the club that he plays for because they are the ones the very best and they know what he does on a daily basis."

There have been suggestions that Kane is trying too hard, spending too much time outside the penalty area.

"All of those things are normal," Hughton said. "Harry wouldn't have been the first number nine that's not scoring as regularly as another time.

"All you can continue to do is keep putting yourself up for it. And sometimes you look to do too much, but one thing about Harry Kane that I see is that he never hides.

"All the things that people have spoken about him are about him being a complete player. He is not just somebody who scores goals.

"I remember last season that unbelievable cross he put in for somebody to score at Wembley in a home game. He is a wonderful all round player and will continue to be so."

The Argus: Kane has made huge strides since a loan spell under Hughton at Norwich earlier in his career (above).

"He had already had a couple of loans," Hughton said. "Unfortunately he got injured in the time. But for somebody that was young he was consistently working day in day out, working on his finishing, last one to come in off the training pitch, and I think under the guidance at Tottenham he has turned into a world class player.

"If you asked me my opinion at the time, he was a wonderful finisher, both feet. Credit to him and Tottenham, I think they have developed him into the player he is now.

"He has ended up a more mobile player, athletic player, than perhaps some would have thought then. And that's credit to him and to Tottenham for developing him."