Players frequently haunt their previous clubs so it would be no great surprise if Mark Wright scored against Albion at one end today and Mikkel Andersen stopped them at the other.

The recent Seagulls are now playing leading roles for high-riding Bristol Rovers.

Wright’s reunion with a former employer has come a week earlier than anyone would have envisaged when the 27-year-old became Russell Slade’s first signing in the summer on a Bosman free transfer from MK Dons.

He agreed a two-year contract but lasted only 73 days, as Albion sold the right winger to Rovers for £35,000 last month following the capture of Elliott Bennett from Wolves.

Wright said: “It’s always nice to play against one of your former teams and I’m really looking forward to it. Hopefully we can pick up another three points at home.

“It will be hard game because, although Brighton were struggling at the start of the season, they have picked up in recent weeks and they will be up for it.

“We are doing well at the moment and are full of confidence. I don’t feel as though I’ve got anything to prove to them.

“I only started two games. That was one of the main reasons I needed to get out.

“They bought another lad in (Bennett) and it didn’t look as though I was going to play. I wasn’t really enjoying it down there so it made sense to go and then Rovers came in for me, so that made my mind up.”

Although featuring in a hat-trick of wins for Rovers so far, Wright was upstaged by two goals for Chris Dickson on his debut on loan from Charlton in last Saturday’s 3-1 victory at Brentford.

He said: “I haven’t played a lot of football this season really but I’m getting fitter and back into the groove of things “I think I’ll get better the more games I play.”

Wright is likely to be a regular in the starting line-up, with his rival for the right wing spot suspended by Rovers.

David Pipe was arrested on suspicion of fracturing a man’s skull in a bottle attack earlier this month and has been bailed to reappear at Bristol police station on Monday.

The only crime committed by Andersen was conceding his first goal for Rovers at Brentford, another of his former loan clubs.

Reading’s giant Danish keeper is bidding for his third shut-out in four games today, quite a contrast to his five-match stint with the Seagulls towards the end of last season.

Andersen kept a clean sheet against Yeovil but let in ten goals in four other defeats.

He said: “I think the Brentford game last weekend was the biggest test I have had so far, because I had some crosses to deal with and some saves to make.

“We are in a really good spell right now where we have one three out of three and I am really looking forward to playing against another of my old clubs.

“There’s a great atmosphere at the moment and everyone is buzzing, so we just want to keep things going.”

Meanwhile, Rovers face to hold on to loan striker Dickson in the long term. The Charlton ace is wanted by Gillingham, where he was on loan in 2007.

Gills have twice tried to sign him previously.

Gillingham chairman Paul Scally said: “He will possibly be a Gills player at the end of his contract. Maybe in January, maybe not at all.”