Bafetimbi Gomis' fortune in front of goal might just have changed for the better according to Swansea manager Garry Monk.
Gomis has had a frustrating time since switching from Lyon last summer, first firmly cast in the role of understudy to Wilfried Bony and then finding goals hard to come by after the Ivory Coast striker completed his initial 25 million-pound January move to Manchester City.
The 12-times capped France forward hardly endeared himself to the Swansea faithful as he appeared to agitate for his own January exit but Monk insisted that the 29-year-old was staying put at the Liberty Stadium.
Gomis rewarded Monk's faith with the winner against Manchester United last weekend and the Swansea boss was not bothered that the Frenchman's second league goal was a complete fluke as he inadvertently deflected Jonjo Shelvey's long-range shot past David de Gea.
"You do need that little bit of luck sometimes, for that first one to go in and then you can go on a run," Monk said ahead of his side's Barclays Premier League trip to Burnley on Saturday.
"You see all strikers doing it and hopefully this is his chance to do that.
"Bafe could have scored a couple more -- he had one cleared off the line against United and had a couple of chances in the previous game at West Brom.
"But I've said before that Bafe's working hard and he's had some good chances to score those goals before, but unfortunately the luck wasn't quite on his side."
Monk admits it has been a period of transformation for Swansea since Bony's departure as the Ivorian was so central to their way of playing.
But he says the squad has done a lot of work on training ground to attune themselves to Gomis' style of play.
"Obviously we are training more for the way that Bafe moves and the way he wants to receive the ball and, hopefully, we'll see more of that in the next 12 games," Monk said.
"But Bafe will always be a threat, he's a top player and the team are getting more used to the way that he plays.
"All strikers want to score goals. That's what they live and breathe for and they all want to go on runs."
