Santi wrote:Zenith wrote:Santi wrote:Angelito wrote:Zenith wrote:Stuck in what is arguably a worse spell than Giroud during 2015-16 (which is saying something).
At least Giroud's goal drought didn't affect his ability to hold the ball up and provide a reliable outlet for his teammates.
Worse than giroud?
Man hasn’t scored in two starts, not 1 goal in 15 or whatever the f**k it was that cost us the title.
Apparently my assessment is funny and goals are all that matter.
Okay, let's just look at the numbers, then.Lacazette
07/04/19 — 29-12-19
1296 minutes, 5 goals
0.347 goals per 90'
1 goal every 259.37 minutesGiroud
13/01/16 — 15/05/16 *this includes his famous 15-game drought
1108 minutes, 6 goals
0.487 goals per 90'
1 goal every 184.80 minutes
Just so we're clear, I'm not suggesting Lacazette is a worse overall player than Giroud.
However, it's abundantly clear that, when he goes through a poor spell, he can be unspeakably poor.
What a f***ing random period to pick, Giroud was our main striker that season and not injured during that period as far as I recall. He was just dogshit and cost us the title.
For lacazette you pick part of last season, followed by a summer break, followed by him playing injured then getting surgery and coming back under circumstances where a manager is being hounded out of the club and two new guys taking charge since. He was dropped for some games and put to the bench during this period as well.
Nevermind the fact you’ve tried to make it worse by taking more minutes for lacazette to make his gpm look even worse, if you use the same minutes and giroud (which I presume is your basis for the time period) then his gpm ratio improves (still worse than Ollie). Also not sure why his European goal doesn’t count while Giroud conveniently gets his shitty last day hat trick against Villa included.
Giroud literally went 15 PL games without scoring, to suggest Laca is anywhere near that out of form is atrocious.
Great comparison, very similar circumstances. Come on Zenith you’re better than that, at least that weird Dutch c*** found it funny though.
Good post. People forget that Lacazette had surgery at the start of the season because of injury he picked up during the pre-season. He needs to find his fitness and form.