After scoring his second goal of the season, Darlington super sub Guylain Ndumbu Nsungu is hoping to be finally given a place in the starting line-up.

The striker's latest strike came in Friday's 1-1 draw at home to Notts County, a well-directed header ten minutes from time having replaced Simon Johnson just six minutes earlier.

It gave Quakers a lead which looked like sending them top of the table but County equalised with five minutes go, leaving Ndumbu Nsungu and his team-mates deflated.

Had his goal, scored in front of Quakers' largest evening attendance for three and a half years, proved the winner it would have been the second occasion the Congolese striker had risen from the bench to become Quakers' match-winner after scoring a penalty at Grimsby a fortnight ago.

The 24-year-old former Sheffield Wednesday forward has had to be patient, spending more time in the dug-out than on the pitch while Akpo Sodje, who also started the season as a sub, has forced his way into the starting XI, replacing Clyde Wijnhard.

After two goals in four appearances Ndumbu Nsungu wants to force his way into the reckoning.

"Of course I want to play from the start, I am a striker and I am here to score goals. On Friday the manager gave me a chance with 15 minutes to go and I repaid him with the goal," said Ndumbu Nsungu who has a contract until January.

"I have just got to keep carrying on what I have been doing. I have to try my best in training and in matches, like Friday night, and hopefully my chance will come soon.

"The season is not very old yet so there is still time for me.

"I was happy to score, it was good for me but it was not good for the team because Notts County scored, it would have been better if we did not concede a goal.

"We would have won three points so I am upset not to win because we would have been top."

Darlington are Ndumbu-Nsungu's fourth English club, and represent his first foray into the bottom division of the Football League, having last season spent time on loan at Preston North End in the Championship before finishing the season with Colchester United in League One.

Neither spell was successful during a miserable 2004/05 for the striker who had scored ten goals in 32 appearances the previous year while on loan to Wednesday from French club, Amiens, which is where Ndumbu-Nsungu moved to from Congo at the age of seven.

Now, after much moving around, he's settled and Ndumbu-Nsungu wants to become a success at Darlington, he said: "I love English football.

"Lots of fans come to watch, when you play in France there are never big crowds.

"I did well at Sheffield Wednesday, I was top scorer and player of the year.

"I enjoyed playing under Chris Turner, he gave me my chance, but after I got back from Preston, Paul Sturrock said I could leave and I did not enjoy it at Colchester.

"Now I want to get promotion with Darlington.

"I like it here, everybody is nice to me and I enjoy it. I have a six month contract but after that I do not know what will happen.

"I have got to do my best in those six months and then afterwards maybe I will get another contract."

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