Massa wrote:my only qualm with Giroud is when he tries to get involved in build-up play. it was fine when he was hanging inside the box as someone to lob balls too, but now he seems to be dropping deeper and sometimes he's even whipping balls into the box. he has neither the touch, vision, pace or passing ability to play wherever he wants so stay in the box please Olivier; like you were doing a month or so ago
I do admit even though I'd prefer another striker which makes me somewhat dislike him he is a good box striker mainly with his head or goal mouth shots ..... however.
Every time we whip balls over the top for him we risk losing the ball, he's marked (as we play 1 striker) by 2 CB's minimum, so were always taking the chance of just punting it with a cross and hoping he get's on the end of it.
This is why our goal ratio is low with Giroud, how many crosses is he realistically going to convert per game against decent defenders? 1 goal if that, lucky if we get 2.
That style of play is best suited to a 4-4-2 system where you have 2 vs 2 in the box, this has just flown over Wenger's head, AFC is not used to having that type of striker for the way we play.