For all the brilliance of the Premier League's foreign superstars, it's a 21-year-old Englishman, who was barely known outside north London before the season started, that is arguably making the most startling impact this campaign.

Forget Diego Costa, Sergio Aguero, Alexis Sanchez, and Robin van Persie. Tottenham striker Harry Kane is the top-scoring player in English football this season with 20 goals in all competitions, and a first call-up to his national squad is surely just around the corner.

No wonder Spurs signed Kane up to a new five-and-a-half year contract this week. "He just looks to me now like a real monster on the pitch," England's assistant coach, Gary Neville, said. "He can do it all."

The next defense Kane looks to plunder is Arsenal's, in the north London derby today - one of two match-ups between local rivals in the 24th round of the league.

The other comes at Goodison Park, where resurgent Liverpool makes the short trip across Stanley Park to visit Everton.

With league-leader Chelsea and second-place Manchester City facing games against struggling sides in Aston Villa and Hull, respectively, much of the focus this weekend is on the race for the other Champions League qualification spots.

Six teams, separated by seven points, are seemingly fighting for two places - and four of them play direct rivals today.

Third-place Manchester United visits eighth-place West Ham, and it is fifth against sixth when Tottenham host Arsenal.

Chelsea shouldn't have a problem maintaining its five-point lead over City this weekend - it is playing a team which has not scored a league goal in more than six weeks.

Aston Villa created an unwanted club record on Sunday, with a 5-0 loss to Arsenal, extending its scoreless streak to six league games.

Villa's tally of 11 goals is the worst in all four of England's leagues - an astonishing 10 behind the joint second-worst, belonging to second-tier Sheffield Wednesday and third-tier Yeovil.

Chelsea is again without top scorer Costa, who serves the second match of his three-game suspension.

Man City plays its last game before the return of Yaya Touré and Wilfried Bony from international duty with Ivory Coast, at the African Cup of Nations.

Hull visits Etihad Stadium, having lost its last three league games to slip into the relegation zone.

Next-to-last Queens Park Rangers is set to go into its home match with fourth-place Southampton without a manager following the resignation of Harry Redknapp on Tuesday.