 | Scoring is obviously that little bit better but I know when I've played my part and if I've helped when a goal has been scored then I am happy |
Wolves frontman Andy Keogh has got used to seeing his strike partners hog the headlines but he does not mind one bit.
At his previous club, Scunthorpe, Keogh helped Billy Sharp score 44 goals in a season-and-a-half and now it is Freddy Eastwood who is linking up with him to lethal effect.
Eastwood has notched four goals in four Championship games since his �1.5m summer move from Southend to Molineux and the Republic of Ireland international has set up all of them.
It is a record Keogh is rightly proud of and he is delighted to see his latest partnership flourishing.
"Billy and I actually clicked a bit quicker together but it is going just as well with Freddy," Keogh told BBC Sport. "We will get better and better too.
"Scoring is obviously that little bit better than making a goal but I know when I've played my part and if I've helped when we've scored then I am happy.
"I have just tried to pick up where I left off last season. I've been setting them up - all I need to do now is catch up with Freddy and score a few myself."
Not that Keogh, a hard-working forward in the Robbie Keane mould, is a slouch when it comes to finding the net himself.
| "It was a very proud moment to play for my country. I have got two caps now and hopefully I will be adding a lot more. |
The 21-year-old got off the mark for the season in Wolves' Carling Cup defeat by Morecambe on Wednesday - his sixth goal for the club since joining for �600,000 in January - and found the net 23 times in his 23 months at Scunthorpe.
His form has been good enough to warrant a call-up by Republic of Ireland boss Steve Staunton - something that seemed unlikely when he left Leeds United, where he was a trainee, to move to Glanford Park in February 2005.
"It was a very proud moment to play for my country," added Keogh. "I have got two caps now and hopefully I will be adding a lot more.
"The way things have turned out showed my decision to join Scunthorpe was right and I am just looking at the next step now.
"I went there to kickstart my career and it worked. That next step for me is the Premier League.
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"The Championship is a very competitive division but playing at a higher level would improve me as a player."
Keogh almost made it into the top-flight last season when Wolves lost in the semi-finals of the play-offs and he is confident that Mick McCarthy's team have what it takes to win promotion this term.
"Can we go up? 100% yes. We have to," he explained. "We have a new chairman who has come in and invested a lot of money and we have to get there soon.
"I am sure we can do it too. We have a good blend of young players and experienced pros.
"We have made a good start and now we have to kick on.
"Our only blip has been against Morecambe but if we get promoted then no-one will remember that game."
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