sentences:  His goals, together with MacDougall's 14, helped Southampton to promotion to the First Division as runners-up in Division 2 at the end of the 1977–78 season.Although he played in every league game, he struggled for goals in the top flight during the 1978–79 season, scoring seven, as well as losing his strike partner MacDougall, who had returned to Bournemouth in November 1978.On 17 March 1979, Boyer again appeared on the losing side in a League Cup final, as Southampton lost 2–3 to Nottingham Forest.