NEWCASTLE midfielder Dan Gosling is hoping he can help to make up for the loss of Andy Carroll and Kevin Nolan this season.

The pair contributed 23 goals between them last season before Carroll left for Liverpool in January and skipper Nolan headed to West Ham over the summer.

However, Gosling served up a timely reminder of his own potency with a double in the reserves’ 6-0 demolition of Norwich on Tuesday and is convinced he can help out if manager Alan Pardew gives him a first-team chance.

Gosling said: “I will bring a lot of energy and I want to bring some goals to the midfield as well.

“We have lost 12 goals in Kevin Nolan, so if can score some goals and help the team, hopefully we will be all right.”

Newcastle have enjoyed a more than solid start to the new Premier League campaign and currently sit in fourth place.

However, while they have conceded only one league goal in four games, they have scored just three themselves, and they created little of note in Monday night’s 0-0 draw at promoted QPR.

The task of scoring the goals the Magpies need to book a third successive top-flight campaign rests with Shola Ameobi, Leon Best, Demba Ba and Peter Lovenkrands.

And Gosling knows he faces a fight to force his way into Pardew’s plans.

The 21-year-old arrived from Everton last summer with a knee injury Newcastle knew would sideline, but to date he has made only two league appearances, both of them as a sub against Sunderland, and one start in the Carling Cup win at Scunthorpe last month.