Scorer again, Sunday, in Naples, Olivier Giroud displays an insolent form ten days before the announcement of the next list of Didier Deschamps.
Nothing seems to be able to stop Olivier Giroud since the beginning of the year. New proof this Sunday during the clash between Naples and theAC Milan. The tricolor world champion was however the victim of a big sole from Kalidou Koulibaly shortly before the half-hour mark. A contact of which the former Gunner still showed the stigmata at the end of the meeting. Witness the large gash on his calf that he did not hesitate to show on social networks. “No pain, no gain,” he wrote alongside the snap, adding two smiling emojis.
The tricolor striker had good reason to be smiling after the match. Not only did AC Milan achieve the big hit this Sunday by winning 1-0 against Naples, thus recovering the leader’s seat, but if the Milanese won it, it was thanks to the native of Grenoble, the only scorer of the game thanks to a timely deflection in the heart of the area on a strike from Davide Calabria. A goal that confirms the great form of the Frenchman.
Seven goals in ten matches
Olivier Giroud is indeed involved in nine goals during his last ten tenures with AC Milan, with seven goals and two assists. A state of form that does not necessarily go unnoticed when Didier Deschamps must announce in ten days his list for the two friendly matches against Côte d’Ivoire and South Africa and that the Savoyard no longer appeared in the team of France since the last Euro. According to the tricolor coach, Olivier Giroud, at 36, no longer provided enough sporting guarantees.
“I know very well what he did, and did very well. Olivier, it was in 2018, but today we are in 2021 and I am not here to give assurances”he confided last August, adding: “I’ve never had a radical position…Olivier is still available, his situation has changed with AC Milan (where he plays more). It’s just a sporting choice. » Since then, Didier Deschamps took refuge behind this sporting logic alone, being careful not to close the door to a return of the second top scorer in the history of the Blues.
And a return of Olivier Giroud to the France team seems all the less utopian as no new faces have taken advantage of his absence to emerge. Kylian Mbappé, Karim Benzema, Antoine Griezmann and to a lesser degree Kingsley Coman certainly still appear essential, but neither Anthony Martial, nor Wissam Ben Yedder and nor Moussa Diaby, a newcomer to the Blues, have made themselves indispensable. Another element that pleads in favor of the Savoyard, no other tricolor attacker has the same register as the Milan player.
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