GARY Cahill has vowed to stay on the goal trail to keep Wanderers climbing up the table.

The centre-half shares the top-scorer mantle with striker Ivan Klasnic after the pair both netted in Tuesday night’s 3-1 victory over West Ham.

His five goals this term already represents a career-best haul, but Cahill insists he won’t stop there.

“When you have scored a few, it breeds confidence,” he said. “Every time you go up, you think you are going to score.

“It’s something I wanted to improve upon this year, and I’m hungry for goals.

“I’ve got five now and we’re not into January. Long may that continue.”

Cahill’s goals have proved a lucky charm for Wanderers, who have never lost a game in which he has scored.

And the 24-year-old reckons he will continue to play the role of box-to-box defender because his side invest so heavily in set pieces.

He said: “I get through a bit of running, getting up and down. If I get on the end of things, like you’ve seen, I stick them in the net.

“The way we play with set pieces, we are quite dangerous. I go up for throw-ins, so I do get a lot of time up there.

“I always tend to linger about. Whether the manager likes it or not, I don’t know, but I stay there.

“I just hope the ball falls to me or I can get in an area where I can get a shot off or get my head on it.”

A vital victory over the Hammers enabled Wanderers to climb clear of the bottom three on goal difference, giving them fresh impetus ahead of the festive schedule.

And with pressure lifted slightly, Cahill is hoping that the same attacking attitude applied in the last two games can now be utilised in fixtures against Wigan, Burnley and Hull.

“The important thing at this stage of the season is to get some wins,” he said.

“We knew what the West Ham game meant going into it. You could sense it in the changing room.

“We couldn’t afford to lose and we went about it in the right manner.

“We did the same against Manchester City and it’s frustrating we didn’t go about the other games in the same manner.

“We would be way up the table had we done so. Basically, it’s been about closing people down and getting in their faces.

“We thoroughly deserved to beat West Ham; we couldn’t have lost. It would have been a tragedy.”