It seems Beram Kayal can do very little wrong at the moment.

And not just as an in-form midfielder for club and country.

Kayal has recorded back-to-back assists for winning goals with Albion and Israel.

He won the ball, got it back, made ground down the left and played in a great ball between keeper and defenders for Glenn Murray to guide home the Seagulls’ decisive goal against West Ham last Friday.

On Thursday night, he was at it again.

Again, a ball whipped in between keeper and defenders, this time right-footed from the right rather than left-footed from the left.

He didn’t pick out a team mate but Kieran Tierney was suitably worried to swing his left leg at the ball and defect it past Allan McGregor.

That was the decisive moment in what was a well-deserved 2-1 win for Israel in their Nations League tussle at Haifa.

Kayal, one of their better players on the night, will not have been surprised.

He forecast a 2-1 Israeli win in a television interview in the days leading up to the game.

Spot on – as was his performance against West Ham as takes his big chance to shine in the Premier League.

Kayal took that form to a national team who were at a very low ebb as they prepared to face the Scots.

He was part of that, starting the previous match but going off after 71 minutes as his nation lost in Albania.

Kaya said: “This victory goes out to the supporters who supported us when we were behind.

“We believed in ourselves and I am very happy that we brought three points for our great crowd.

“I am enjoying myself here and I am giving everything to the national team like always.

“I am in good form in Brighton and bringing that to the national team.

“The game in Albania hurt us because played very well but the ball didn’t go in the net.

“Eran (Zahavi) and I had opportunities.

“We felt like something new is happening but when you lose it is hard in the national team set up.

“The faith is there and we feel like something new is building. I am happy that we showed character, especially after the questionable penalty for Scotland. After they scored, we looked good.”

Kayal has had to wait for his Premier League chances.

On the face it, there was not much of an opening for him given the form last season of the triumvirate of Dale Stephens, Davy Proper and Pascal Gross.

But a chance will often come if you are prepared to take it.

How many times have we seen that for players who appear to be out of the picture?

That has certainly been the case for Kayal For one thing, Chris Hughton has looked to move away from his normal 4-4-1-1 set-up in some away games.

And, for another, Gross, Stephens and now Propper have all picked up injuries already this season.

Kayal went on as sub for Stephens a quarter of the way through the recent home defeat to Tottenham and did well.

But The Argus can reveal he very politely turned down an interview request after that game, explaining (with a smile and a handshake) that it was only one game and he wanted to do more before speaking.

A contract extension offered a good chance to talk later that week.

He was one of the better Albion players at Manchester City next time out before being a popular choice for sponsors’ man of the match versus the Hammers, even if Sky Sports thought differently.

As a former Celtic midfielder, Kayal felt he was able to offer some advice on how to cope with the Scots’ approach this week.

He said: “I was happy to help our professional staff in giving some tips from my experience.

“All the match we enjoyed ourselves and looked good with three centre-backs.

“There is new blood in the national team.”

That sort of bold talk will be music to the ears of Albion fans.

Kayal has been popular ever since his mid-season move from Glasgow and lighting up what was a tough campaign for Albion.

He was Hughton’s first major signing and remained a big influence all the way through the Premier League.

There was a time in 2015-16 when it seemed Albion could not win if Kayal and/or Stephens were absent in the middle of their 4-4-2 set-up.

One of the keys to going up the following year was overcoming that complex and learning to cope without one or two of their middle men on occasion.

Steve Sidwell and, to a lesser degree, Oliver Norwood saw to that.

Last term, with Kayal injured in pre-season, Propper and Stephens became the middle men.

Again, it felt like Albion could not win a league match without Stephens in particular (although Propper also played in all their victories).

There were lots of Albion storylines on which to focus last weekend but one which went a little under the radar was the fact they won without Stephens.

The last victory in which the No.6 played no part was the landmark first ever success at Hillsborough two years ago this month.

He didn’t start the following away success, at Wigan, but came off the bench to hit the winner.

Stephens also went on as sub during the home win between those games, 1-0 over Wolves.

It’s not just that Stephens played in all the wins.

He has played in a lot of defeats too. But there were periods when his absence seemed to coincide – and maybe that is the wrong word – with a slip in form.

There was the three-match absence in the promotion season which saw defeats at Lincoln (FA Cup) and Huddersfield, plus a scrambled draw at Brentford, before he returned for the win at home to Burton.

There was the lay-off last term which followed the miserable win over Arsenal.

Albion subsequently lost at Everton and looked awful, lost at Manchester and looked better and went down at home to Leicester before he returned for the draw at home to Huddersfield.

They now have that rare Stephensless win and could have the Lancastrian back after the break if Hughton’s assertion that he would be close to making the West Ham game is a guide.

That would be good news given Propper’s foot injury, sustained while defending against the Hammers, could rule him out.

As for Kayal, once Israel have played Albania tomorrow, it will be back to England and all thoughts on the trip to Newcastle.

What will his prediction be for the contest by the Tyne? We will probably never know.

But he will have every right to travel to St James’s Park full of belief.

Yves Bissouma started for Mali last night as they were held to a 0-0 draw at home by Burundi.