Bristol City after hitting his seventh in 11 games on Saturday against Bournemouth in a 1-1 home draw.

But so far his goals haven't been enough to keep City in the top half of the standings as they have now gone three games without a league win and are languishing near the bottom of the Second Division with only two wins in seven matches.

Despite signing a couple of new strikers -- one costing 400,000 -- City are still relying on Goater to score most of their goals. In league play he's hit six of the club's total of nine.

"Funnily enough I was looking at some of the programmes from the last couple of seasons and I normally start well,'' said Goater prior to the Bournemouth match when his first half goal was wiped out by Bournemouth's second half equaliser.

"Last year I had seven goals in 12 games so it's more or less the same as I have always done.'' Goater admitted he was looking to improve on the 25 goals he scored last season in his first year with the club. Though he has been consistently one of the leading scorers in the division over the last three years, a 30-goal season still eludes him.

"Hopefully I can stay injury free and if the team are playing well and creating chances I can see me getting more than 25,'' said the striker whose contract expires at the end of the season.

His priority is to help the team get promotion to the First Division although they now need to embark on a winning run after the September slump.

"I'll accept 25 goals and get promoted rather than score 30 and not get promoted,'' said Goater.

Next week City will attempt to overturn the 3-1 deficit they face in their League Cup tie with Premier League Leeds United.

City have to win by at least two goals if they are to advance. They would have considered a 2-1 loss an achievement in the away leg but Leeds hit a third goal in the last minute to cushion their lead.

"They didn't play particularly well and won 3-1, so personally I'm a little upset with that, but we have another chance at it,'' said Goater who scored his team's goal.

Failure in this cup competition would enable City to concentrate more on the promotion race.

"Our bread and butter is the league,'' said the Bermudian.

"The bookies are saying we are one of the favourites to go up so we want to prove them right and be up there in the promotion race.

"It's good to play the Leedses and the Premiership teams in the cup games but it's the league that matters for us.''