Bafetimbi Gomis bids to break Swansea goals record against Watford
Friday 11 September 2015 13:26, UK
Bafetimbi Gomis will join a Premier League elite and break a Swansea City record if he scores against Watford on Saturday.
If he finds the back of the net at Watford, he will have scored in five straight matches at the start of the season - a feat only previously achieved in the Premier League by Micky Quinn (Coventry City), Ian Marshall (Ipswich Town), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) and Jose Antonio Reyes (Arsenal).
The France striker became the first Swansea player since Harry Deacon in 1923 to score in the first four matches of a league campaign when he grabbed the winner against Manchester United on August 30.
Deacon achieved the feat when the Swans were in the Third Division South League and he went on to end the season as the league's top scorer with 18 goals.
Gomis joined Swansea on a free transfer from Lyon in 2014, and made a lacklustre start to life in the Premier League, only finding the net twice in his first 19 appearances and being forced to play second fiddle to Wilfried Bony.
But after Bony departed for Manchester City in the January 2015 transfer window, Gomis began to find his feet, going on to score eight goals in his next 17 games, including a run of five goals in six games to round off last season.
The 30-year-old has carried that hot streak into the current campaign, scoring his first goal from the penalty spot in the 2-2 draw with Chelsea on the opening day of the season.
He followed that up with strikes in the 2-0 home win over Newcastle United and the 1-1 draw with Sunderland, before scoring again to seal the Swans' win over Manchester United before the international break.
However, the striker is more concerned with helping Swansea collect three points against Watford on Saturday than in personal records.
"It is always great to equal and break records, but the most important thing is for Swansea to get the three points every weekend," he told the club's website.
"The most important thing is that Swansea are winning games, playing well and are in a good position in the league."
