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The good times are here again for Zach Clough, who vowed there are more goals to come after sinking Northampton Town.
Wanderers’ prodigious young striker scored at Sixfields to send his side second in the League One table after a seventh win in eight.
Clough has now struck seven times in his last eight league starts to match his haul for the entire of last season. But the 21-year-old Denton destroyer insists he is not done yet.
“I just can’t stop scoring at the minute and I think that’s just because I’m enjoying my football,” he told The Bolton News.
“It’s a new position for me out on the left and I’m thriving off it. It’s great.
“I’ve seen the two extents at Bolton. I’ve been through times where we couldn’t win games but this is completely different. This is what football is all about, isn’t it?”
Clough is not shy about setting goal targets and believes he can get way into double figures provided he can avoid the fitness problems which plagued the first few months of his season.
“I think I can get 15-plus,” he said. “We’re not even half way through yet and I’m on seven, so I think I should get to that. It has been all about keeping injury free and when I do that I think I’ve proved I can score goals. That is the main thing for me now.”
Wanderers had to work hard for their spoils at Northampton, defending a third straight clean sheet with dogged determination in the second half.
“It was down to their change in system,” Clough noted. “Northampton threw two big men up front and went very direct. I thought we coped with them well and we’re seeing out games a lot better than we have done before.”
But as results elsewhere finally went Wanderers’ way, Clough was delighted to see them back in the automatic promotion places for the first time in a fortnight.
“The gaffer said pre-match we’ve got a long time to look at the table so we had to make that count,” he said. “It’s good to see us go up to second but now we have got Sheffield United in the FA Cup this weekend and that is what we have got to focus on.
“Automatic promotion is the aim but it isn’t what dominates our thoughts. If you start thinking too far ahead then you’ll come unstuck.”
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Wanderers’ prodigious young striker scored at Sixfields to send his side second in the League One table after a seventh win in eight.
Clough has now struck seven times in his last eight league starts to match his haul for the entire of last season. But the 21-year-old Denton destroyer insists he is not done yet.
“I just can’t stop scoring at the minute and I think that’s just because I’m enjoying my football,” he told The Bolton News.
“It’s a new position for me out on the left and I’m thriving off it. It’s great.
“I’ve seen the two extents at Bolton. I’ve been through times where we couldn’t win games but this is completely different. This is what football is all about, isn’t it?”
Clough is not shy about setting goal targets and believes he can get way into double figures provided he can avoid the fitness problems which plagued the first few months of his season.
“I think I can get 15-plus,” he said. “We’re not even half way through yet and I’m on seven, so I think I should get to that. It has been all about keeping injury free and when I do that I think I’ve proved I can score goals. That is the main thing for me now.”
Wanderers had to work hard for their spoils at Northampton, defending a third straight clean sheet with dogged determination in the second half.
“It was down to their change in system,” Clough noted. “Northampton threw two big men up front and went very direct. I thought we coped with them well and we’re seeing out games a lot better than we have done before.”
But as results elsewhere finally went Wanderers’ way, Clough was delighted to see them back in the automatic promotion places for the first time in a fortnight.
“The gaffer said pre-match we’ve got a long time to look at the table so we had to make that count,” he said. “It’s good to see us go up to second but now we have got Sheffield United in the FA Cup this weekend and that is what we have got to focus on.
“Automatic promotion is the aim but it isn’t what dominates our thoughts. If you start thinking too far ahead then you’ll come unstuck.”
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