WummingOriginally Posted by Letters
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Wumming
Little bit sad.
I wasn't overly into this game for the most part but Giroud's wondergoal attempt was a real piss take. Not the first time so why does he do that? Considering that there were so few opportunities to effectively counterattack.
Yeah that was stupid, he's done that a few times this season. Needed more intelligent forward play out there but Bif and Theo were fairly shit.
Giroud is a step down on most of our strikers and he excels at nothing. His control and technique isn't good at all, not dominant in the air or that accurate, shooting is wayward....his movement can be good but he's slow. We need better because we're going nowhere fast with him leading the line.
It's hard to create anything for a guy so limited in pace and ability to control the ball.
He doesn't even seem to be predatory, so when chances arrive in the box he's always a couple yards away from them as he has very poor instinct and anticipation.
Like for the first goal, you mean? Interesting that he's scored 3 more than RVP did in his first season with us - with a considerably worse MF behind him. As for the long range shot he's being criticised for - did anyone see any of the shite shots fired in by the Bayern players? Not fair to pillory him for that. How many shots did our most expensive player even attempt?
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
It's really hard to pin point a strength that he has in abundance over all of our other strikers. I though we were buying a predator and a bit of an old school player. The type of player that will lace a bullet in the net if given an inch like Shearer, Batistuta. Or a massive handful of a player like how Christian Vieri who can bounce defenders off him. I wasn't expecting him to have that world class polish but at least have something about him that we could use. It's hard setting up goals for a guy that slow and rubbish in front of goal.
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