Callum wrote:Angelito wrote:Of course, Giroud alone isn't to be blamed, but if you had to pick the weakest link of our team, what would it be? The answer is unanimous. I'd love for Giroud to score 20+ League goals this season but Sturridge has continued his firing start to the season, while Giroud has gone back to where he was. That's the difference.
"gone back to where he was"
What? Do you watch our games? He got an assist versus Swansea, scored versus Napoli and played a big part in Ozil's goal, and today he held the ball up well and played the ball to Rosicky to let Jack in. That's four goals in a week he's either assisted, scored or played a huge part in, yet still he gets stick.
Also, Podolski was f***ing wank up front last season. Giroud is twice the player as him in that position.
Kinda naive to ask me that.
Yeah, but Podolski had the same number of goals and more assists in less games and game time...
You like Giroud. I do too. We all do. I don't care if we win our remaining 31 games from own goals, as long as we win. Giroud's poor start and the two misses today were amongst the reasons why we drew. Don't sit there acting like Giroud should be immune to criticism. He won't. No player will be. And, don't expect Giroud to get the same treatment that van persie, Aguero, or Suarez do because he won't either. If you're playing for Arsenal, you need to do better. It doesn't help Giroud that his predecessors were world class.
I'm all for fair play, love, acceptance, patience, toleration, etc, but there is no need to get worked over a player being criticized. What you feel won't change anything.
I'll clear it: Giroud isn't the sole reason we didn't win today, but he had the two best chances of the game and blew it. You won't get rave reviews after that.
