Unpopular opinion: Girond was better than Lacazette and I can see why he was favoured in the French team for recent tournaments.
Unpopular opinion: Girond was better than Lacazette and I can see why he was favoured in the French team for recent tournaments.
Just seen a few highlights. Good goal from us. Poxy luck for the equaliser.
Auba's red , yeah, I'll give them that one. Was pretty nasty.
On current form it's surprisingly hard to argue against that, but Giroud is a second rate striker and will always be one. Lacazette can be so much more than what we're seeing, which in some ways makes it all the more frustrating that he's not kicking on.
I would still take Lacazette over Giroud any day of the week.
They're different strikers. I was never sold on Giroud but I don't believe Lacazette is that much better and if he is, it isn't by much. Both have had similar careers but it's actually Giroud who has played in far more successful teams.
The Giround Lacazette comparison isn't a fair one, Giroud was basically our main striker, everything went through him at a time when we created a lot of chances, his finishing was pretty terrible though and he use to go on long barren runs even though he was the in the centre of things, will never forget when he played in the Euros for France and was put through 1-1 and absolutely fluffed it
Lacazette isn't central to our game, as we now have several strikers, he's also playing in a time when we don't create much. His chasing back is also far better than Girouds ever was.
He's out of form at the moment, but is a much better finisher than Giroud IMO.
They've pretty much ended up with each other's jobs: Giroud always felt like a 'plan B' / 'horses for courses' striker, and would have provided a welcome alternate threat to Aubameyang in this current Arsenal side; whereas Lacazette always looks like he offers an inferior version of the same option that Auba gives us in this current team, and probably could have been the main man in Giroud's Arsenal, where we always needed more mobility up top.