Alan Pardew's side followed up their surprise triumphs over Chelsea and Tottenham by beating Norwich City 2-1 at St James' Park last weekend.
Pardew stated on Thursday that he shares midfielder Yohan Cabaye's desire of playing in the UEFA Champions League and a recent upturn in fortunes has moved Newcastle up to eighth in the top flight - just two points behind fourth-placed Manchester City.
The Tyneside club have only lost once at home this season and will be aiming for a repeat of last season's 2-1 victory over Albion - when Papiss Cisse scored an inadvertent late winner.
Cisse was on the substitutes bench again in the victory over Norwich this weekend and Shola Ameobi's performance against Chris Hughton's side looks set to keep the Senegal striker out of the starting line-up once again on Saturday.
Steve Clarke's side surrendered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with Aston Villa on Monday night.
He said: "We are definitely good enough to be in the top half of the table and we went into Monday night thinking if we got the three points we could go to Newcastle and maybe overtake them and they're having a great season.
"There are fine margins between the top eight and 13th and 14th in the table – so we are not panicking at the moment.
"We know we’re playing good football and things will start going our way soon and hopefully we can beat what we did last season."
