My goal against Shrewsbury was among those nominated for goal-of-the-month for August in League 1.

I am quite known for scoring those types of goals – from long range and off either foot – and I don’t think it will be the last one we will see this season.

That goal was up there with my top five but it’s hard to say which is my best ever.

I scored one in the Bristol derby for City, similar to the goal against Shrewsbury. The stadium went a bit crazy and it was on TV as well.

Playing for QPR last season, we were drawing 3-3 against Bolton in the 94th minute and I turned the guy on the edge of the box and hit it with my right foot and it flew into the bottom corner.

I’ve got five goals in the first month for Gillingham and that’s not bad. If I can keep that tally going every month, I should be having 20 goals by Christmas, which would be fantastic.

My target is to get four to five goals a month, which isn’t impossible.

The manager changed it a bit last weekend and I like playing in behind the strikers. I don’t want to go too deep or too high and it is about getting that balance.

Port Vale haven’t lost at home in the league but it has to end at some point.

The boys aren’t afraid to play anyone. Every team are beatable and things happen in football you don’t expect.

We are just going to treat them like any other opposition, unbeaten at home or not.

Next week we’ll be looking forward to facing Tottenham in the EFL Cup.

As an Arsenal player, I never really got to experience a derby against Tottenham, apart from as a youth player, when we played them twice in three days, in the FA Youth Cup and the league final.

Even those two games showed the levels of hatred between the sides.

The stadium was almost full for the FA Youth Cup game and we were getting battered by their fans but I never got to experience it as a first team player.

We’ll just be going out to give them the hardest time possible.

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