Olivier Giroud: Au Revoir Cher Ami

[razörist]

The Benayoun comment always gets me, golden!

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Oh yeah, @Jury. You referenced Benayoun again? After the first calamity?

 

[Jury]

 

[Rain Dance]

... Behind Girou..OOOH

Best one touch goal scorer?

 

[4R5Emaniac]

Wow, what a freaking goal!

 

[Aevi]

He's a useless donkey piece of **** footballer.

 

[razörist]

If Messi scored that it would have been goal of the century.

If Özil had scored that I would've been on life support right now.

What a goal Olly, what a goal.

 

[Jury]

Top corner, in off the bar... Any football person knows you can't top that

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Lovely scorpion kick goal today. Great agility from the big man. It's been a while since I celebrated a goal like a maniac.

 

[Jury]

Scored again, still doesn't matter. Could score in the next 10 games, still wouldn't matter.

Team doesnt look as fluid with him up top FWIW, but Giroud himself is doing his job. Opening goals are big goals.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Giroud's contribution this season.

Scored twice at a vital time against Sunderland, scored an equaliser against Ludogorets before half-time, scored a late equaliser at Old Trafford, scores an important penalty against PSG when we were struggling, scores a late winner against WBA and scores a spectacular goal to open the scoring against Palace all with limited playing time.

We're so lucky to have this guy, no other team has a striker who's been 2nd choice and still produces so many big moments.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Good goal against team that maybe lacked confidence defensively because of what happening to them earlier and the new manager coming in!

I think there is more to come from Giroud. But so far I think it is fair to say that he has barely lived up his price we payed for him!

 

[BBF]

Quality goal today, you can't fault that.

I'm with Jury though on his overall contribution. We look a lot better without him when starting games.

 

[El Duderino]

Seems to be reaching his purple patch part of the season. Amazing goal today from the big man.

Hopefully if we don't play him into the ground, he can keep it up for a longer while.

 

[HollandGooner]

What a freaking goal. But let's be fair a lot of luck involved. Never mind love the attitude

 

[SuperGoon]

What a freaking goal if Ronaldo or Messi would have scored this people would be all festival wanking. Pure quality.

To their credit, Sky milked that goal for everything it was worth. I checked out even our rival forums and even they're saying it as a world class goal.

Even better that it upstaged Mkhitaryan literally less than a week after he scored it.

 

[Giroud]

Giroud is a funny player as he'll score every game, then not score at all, miss a sitter, then score an absolute wonder goal. He misses some bad chances but on the other hand he scores goals that few if any other strikers score. If you average out his performances what you're looking at is a pretty good player.

What makes him so frustrating is that inability to perform consistently. You get the feeling if he could score more of the chances like the one Monreal served up to him today instead of a few wonder goals here and there he would be a little more effective and reliable.

That goal today was one of the best I've ever seen.

 

[Jury]

I think there is more to come from Giroud. But so far I think it is fair to say that he has barely lived up his price we payed for him!

No way. Giroud has easily proven incredible value for £11m ffs! The fact is if we sold him he'd go for nearly treble that. That tells you all you need to know. Come on, don't be a slag.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

No way. Giroud has easily proven incredible value for £11m ffs! The fact is if we sold him he'd go for nearly treble that. That tells you all you need to know. Come on, don't be a slag.

Got ya.

 

[CurryFlavoured]

I'm with the consensus, very useful player but I prefer the fluidity of our attack with Sanchez central. Very good 2nd choice and substitute option though, people who think he's useless are bananas.