Despite scoring only once in the opening nine Gameweeks of 2015/16, Harry Kane (£10.9m) ended the campaign as top scorer in the Premier League with 25 goals.
The Golden Boot winner has been similarly slow to find his form this term.
Kane managed only one assist in the first three fixtures before opening his account for the season with a goal in Tottenham Hotspur's 4-0 win at Stoke City last weekend.
Nonetheless, with only 15 points accrued, Kane is the fifth top forward in terms of transfers out - over 260,000 Fantasy Premier League managers have already parted company with the Spurs frontman.
With his confidence on the up, Kane will be buoyed by the return to action of Mousa Dembele (£5.5m) for the weekend meeting with Sunderland, who are second bottom in the league table.
The Belgian served the last of a six-match suspension against the Potters and his availability looks promising for Kane's remaining 14.4% of FPL owners.
Over the course of last season, the England international scored only once in the 11 Premier League fixtures that Dembele failed to start.
Kane found the net 24 times in the other 27 matches, with the Belgian's prompting in midfield and surges forward allowing the Spurs forward to take up more advanced areas when in possession.
According to the Fixture Difficulty Rankings (FDR), Mauricio Pochettino’s men are handed a score of two or less in four of the upcoming five rounds of fixtures.
Along with the Gamewek 5 meeting with the Black Cats, Spurs face Middlesbrough, West Bromwich Albion and AFC Bournemouth.
Only a home match against Manchester City in Gameweek 7 is seen as less promising over that period.
Although Kane has managed 90 minutes just once this season, he has started all four of Spurs’ top-flight fixtures despite the arrival of Vincent Janssen (£7.8m).
With Pochettino’s decision to bench Erik Lamela (£7.1m) for last week’s win underlining his wealth of options in attacking midfield, Kane could be the main beneficiary of that seemingly favourable run of fixtures before the schedule takes a turn for the worse in Gameweek 10.
See: Kane on scoring his first goal of the season | Tale of the tape: Spurs v Sunderland
