AARON Collins hopes he can translate his goal-scoring form in the cup competitions to League One, and take on the mantle of Wanderers’ chief goal-getter.

As the club bid farewell to Dion Charles this week, the man who leads the scoring charts this season says he is hopeful that he can pick up the pace.

Collins has maintained an impressive scoring record since joining Wanderers from Bristol Rovers 12 months ago and his goal proved the difference on Tuesday night as Ian Evatt’s side nudged past Lincoln City in the Vertu Trophy to reach the quarter-finals.

Wanderers are looking to remodel their attack after agreeing a deal with Huddersfield for Charles, who last season became the first player to score 20 goals in back-to-back season since John McGinlay.

But Collins has his own targets in mind as he aims to continue his own form in front of goal.

“A lot of my goals have been in the cup so I have to score way more in the league going into the last 20-22 games,” he said. “I’m starting off on six in the league but I want 15 and hopefully, that means we can pick up results as well.

“It’s honestly about the win at the moment and we know we have to take that into Saturday and to Cambridge now. But whether it’s the league or the cup, I love scoring goals and I want to score more.”

Wanderers have reached the last eight of the Vertu Trophy for three seasons in a row and will find out on Saturday which opponent they will face in the Northern side of the draw at the start of February.

After returning to winning ways in front of a small crowd at Lincoln, the challenge this weekend at the Toughsheet will be quite different. Bolton host Cambridge and then Charlton on Tuesday night and Collins is hoping to replicate the resolute defensive performance they showed at Sincil Bank.

“We’re two games from Wembley, that’s what we have got to think,” he said. “And that might be a spark, we have been waiting for one for a while. You don’t know where it’s going to come from.

“It might be that result. Hopefully we get it started on Saturday and the lads have dealt with this for a long time. We enjoy performing in front of the home crowd and we want to go and win games for them.

“The way we're going to win games is by keeping clean sheets or conceding minimal goals.

“We're always going to score goals with the players that we've got on the pitch and, like I said, the main thing is building on clean sheets and going forward from that.”