Fulham manager Roy Hodgson is confident Bobby Zamora can break the 20-goal barrier for the first time since he burst onto the scene with a flurry of goals at Brighton 10 years ago.
Zamora fired the Cottagers into the fourth round of the FA Cup on Saturday by scoring the winner in Fulham's 1-0 win over League One side Swindon.
Zamora put in a typically workmanlike shift during the match, the type of performance which has seen him tipped to sneak ahead of Emile Heskey and Peter Crouch in the race to make England's World Cup squad.
The 28-year-old showed the class and composure of a man in form as he held off the challenge of Robins captain Gordon Greer to keep his balance and lift the ball over Swindon stopper David Lucas to seal the win.
The strike was his 11th of the season, seven more than he achieved during the whole of last year's campaign.
Hodgson believes the 6ft striker is beginning to rekindle the kind of form he first showed 10 years ago when he burst onto the scene by scoring 31 goals in his second season at Brighton.
"Eleven is good for Bobby and if we can get him onto 20 goals this year then that will be fantastic," said Hodgson, who signed a new 12-month rolling contract this week.
"The way that he is going at the moment, he's well on target for that.
"He was angry for not scoring the first chance which he set up for himself early on. The goal was a very fine strike and throughout the game I thought he did well."
Zamora arrived at Craven Cottage in the summer of 2008 from West Ham, where he had four-and-a-half indifferent years.
After a barren first season, he struggled to adapt to life at Fulham but rebuffed interest from Hull last summer to fight for his place in Hodgson's starting XI.
That decision paid off and Hodgson saluted the character of the striker, which he believes has pulled the former Tottenham man through.
"His confidence must have been a little bit low in front of goal (last season), but he has never hidden," said Hodgson, who takes his side to Stoke on Tuesday night.
"The number of games he played even when the goals weren't going in or when he held the ball a bit too long, trying to find the right pass, he has never hidden.
"You have to have a lot of confidence in your own ability that when things aren't really going your way and people aren't singing your praises to keep launching yourself at the ball, to keep on demanding it, to keep going up for those challenges with the centre-backs and he's always done that."