Predicting Arsenal’s Premier League goal haul this season

Olivier Giroud – 17 goals

In Olivier Giroud’s four complete Premier League seasons as an Arsenal player, the French international boasts a tally of 11 goals in 2012/13, 16 in 2013/14, 14 in 2014/15 and 16 in 2015/16.

With an annual haul of 16 looking like Giroud’s glass ceiling right now, we’re backing the former Montpellier man to rank in and around this figure again this term.

It’s overstated in football but at the same time, it’s a true fact that Arsenal just haven’t boasted a striker able to score closer to 25 goals over the recent past.

While Giroud is an excellent all-rounder in respect of being able to hold up the play while also registering his fair share of goals season in, season out, he is quite simply not the world class calibre of forward such as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Sergio Aguero or Luis Suarez that can take their scoring to higher levels.