Well, many-an-Arsenal supporter will be delighted for Olivier Giroud.
The 36-year-old opened the scoring in France’s World Cup victory over Poland on Sunday to become his country’s all-time record goalscorer.
In doing so, Giroud, who has 52 goals for Les Bleus, overtook Arsenal icon Thierry Henry to become the outright leader.
The AC Milan hitman left the Gunners for Chelsea almost five years ago in an £18 million deal [The Sun] and Chris Sutton has lavished praise on the big forward, highlighting the ‘genius’ of his finish yesterday.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: “It’s brilliant from Kylian Mbappe, a clever run and it’s genius from Olivier Giroud, the finish. He knows what he wants to do. He is lethal. Karim Benzema wasn’t fit and Giroud stepped up.”
To still be scoring goals on the biggest stage of them all – and big goals, too – at the age of 36 only serves to highlight Giroud’s elite professionalism.
And not to mention, his quality.
He got a lot of stick from Arsenal supporters down the years throughout his five-and-a-half year spell at the Emirates Stadium.
But there is no denying that he’s an excellent goalscorer and – whisper it – he could yet help Didier Deschamps’s side retain their World Cup title in a couple of weeks.
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