Jon Dadi Bodvarsson's relief at ending Wolves goalscoring drought

Seven months, to be precise, since he last experienced what every striker loves doing more than anything else, scoring a goal.

It wasn't quite the moment he dreamt of, with Bodvarsson's late strike a mere consolation in a disappointing 3-1 defeat for Bristol City.

But the relief was palpable for the popular striker, who had played 35 times for Wolves without finding the net since his goal against Blues on August 20.

"It's been a hard couple of months for me personally regarding goalscoring," he said.

"If anything, you have to keep faith in yourself and belief.

"I just kept on going, kept focused, trained hard and with a little luck finally it went in.

"It's a relief, it's always behind your head when you're not scoring goals, especially for such a long time.

"I had to block that out. Of course it's a relief, you just build up from that. Adversity makes you stronger.

"Me and Nouha (Dicko, who scored on Tuesday) talk together often about these things, we help each other and it's good for us to score goals. We're working every day to get better, not just in goalscoring but in our general games.

"If you make an effort you'll get rewarded, eventually.

"(But) it would have been much sweeter if it had been on a better day."

Despite his drought in front of goal Bodvarsson has retained the support of Wolves fanbase.

That's something that certainly hasn't gone unnoticed by the 24-year-old.

"It's not often in football you have that much support as a striker when you don't score goals," Bodvarsson added.

"They helped me every bit of the way. Little things like singing your name, the Icelandic clap and everything, it gives you belief and shows myself that I'm still a good player! Even though I'm not scoring goals.

"They've been a major help, not just to me but to the team in general."

Substitute Bodvarsson said the whole team were 'really disappointed' with their flat performance at Ashton Gate, with two goals from Tammy Abraham and another from Jamie Paterson giving Lee Johnson's team a comfortable victory.

The aim for the team is now to finish the season in style as they begin to prepare for 2017/18.

As for Bodvarsson, he echoed his boss Paul Lambert's recent assertion that he could be a better player in his second season in English football - after a long overdue rest this summer.

"That's my main ambition right now," he added. "This season obviously hasn't been great for me personally regarding goalscoring and my main ambition is to make it an even better season than this.

"It's been a while, almost two years with no break, it'll be really good to have some vacation, relax and come back stronger.

"We were really disappointed with our performance – we know we're a much better team than we showed on Saturday.

"Every 50/50 challenge, we weren't winning them. They were always one step ahead I thought and somehow looked more dangerous.

"My main goal (after coming off the bench) was to try and stretch Bristol because they were quite high up the pitch, try to get in behind them and win some flick-ons and second balls, I thought I did my best there.

"We want to finish off strong, to not get comfortable and keep on striving.

"We were in a really bad position earlier in the season, it was a huge wake up call for us and luckily we've stuck together and won five in a row.

"We said to ourselves we're going to finish the season with style, as much as we can, and learn for next season."