Nahki Wells admitted he felt "hard done by" to have dropped to the substitutes' bench in recent weeks but it only added to the hunger to force his way back into the manager's starting line-up and get himself on the scoresheet.
The City striker won the PFA Fans' Player of the Month for September have bagged five goals in five appearances. A blank followed against Coventry City before being one of three players to come off at half-time in the 3-0 defeat at Birmingham.
Wells then found himself on the bench for the next two matches with Nigel Pearson opting with the strike duo of Antoine Semenyo and Tommy Conway but he turned to Wells against West Brom on Tuesday night in a bid to get City's strikers firing again.
