That period included, in fairness, a two-month absence with a hamstring injury, but either side of that spell, Jackson had regressed away from the maturing centre-forward of the early part of the season and back towards the volatile, wasteful iteration of his debut campaign. His hold-up play here, however, was back at its most useful and that he returned to the scoresheet on his sharpest performance since that injury break was no coincidence either.
