Saido Berahino targets big finish to West Brom season

The Albion striker currently has seven goals this season, four in the Premier League and three in the FA Cup.

Now, the 22-year-old sharpshooter has set himself a personal target of hitting the back of the net at least three times in the remaining seven games.

Berahino finished the last two seasons as the club's top scorer and bagged 20 goals in total last campaign.

But the academy product spent more than three months of this season exiled on the substitutes' bench.

Until recently, boss Tony Pulis did not believe he was in the right frame of mind or body to start a Premier League match.

But the striker reckons reaching 10 goals will rescue a season blighted by a series of indiscretions. "My personal target is to get as many goals as I can," he said.

"If I can get into double figures – I am on seven at the moment – it will be brilliant for me and a turnaround after all the things that have happened so it would be good."

Berahino also needs goals in order to remain the club's top goalscorer for a third successive season.

Strike partner Salomon Rondon has scored four in his last seven Premier League starts and now he has eight goals in total this season with the £12 million record signing overtaking the Englishman at the top of the club's scoring charts.

However, it has been Berahino's return to the team that has sparked the Venezuelan's upturn in fortunes, and there's no personal rivalry between the two.

Saido says he's focused on the team.

"We are just trying to get as much points on the board now," he said.

"We have got to finish the season strong, that is the main aim for us.

"We are pushing ourselves to 45 points and hopefully we can get that."

Rondon puts his sluggish start to the season down to tiredness.

"It was playing lots of games in a row, in lots of different competitions, running hard, and then there was the stress of not scoring goals too – not having the chance to score," he said.

"We have a nutritionist and she helped me make sure I was eating the right things – an athlete has to eat perfectly. But the stress of not scoring goals, all of the running, and all of those games in a row – and the long journeys from the international break, 14 or 15 hours – that was making me tired."