GOAL ONE: August 11, 2009 Saints 2 Northampton 0 (Carling Cup) It took just 29 minutes of his Saints career for Lambert to begin paying back the £1m spent on him by the club. The striker burst into the box to bundle in a Lloyd James cross and set Alan Pardew’s men on the way to a comfortable first-round victory.

GOAL TWO: August 15, 2009 Huddersfield 3 Saints 1 Lambert made it two goals from two Saints games with an equalising header early in the second half at the Galpharm Stadium that bounced off the crossbar and over the line. It proved to only be a consolation, however, as Huddersfield scored twice more.

GOAL THREE: August 29, 2009 Stockport 1 Saints 1 Penalty number one of Lambert’s Saints career was successfully converted against one of his former clubs, as he blasted home into the bottom-left corner from 12 yards late in the first-half, before a late spot kick denied the club victory.

GOALS FOUR AND FIVE: September 19, 2009 Saints 2 Yeovil 0 A pair of penalties took Lambert’s tally for Saints up to five. First, he fired low to the keeper’s right after a foul on Marek Saganowski. Then, early in the second half, he powered the ball into the opposite corner following a handball.

That helped Saints claim their first league win of the season under Alan Pardew.