Arsene Wenger has not already revealed which 11 Arsenal players will be in the starting line-up for the Premier League home game against Burnley on Sunday afternoon, of course he hasn’t, but it does not take a football genius to guess that Olivier Giroud was always going to be one of them as long as the France international star was fit enough.
There was a real concern that the in form forward might not be though, after he appeared to damage his left ankle while scoring the opening goal for the Gunners to set us on the road to a four goal win away to Swansea City last weekend, but Metro have reported that the big man is back in training so we can assume that he is perfectly okay to play again.
The manager and his medical team at Arsenal must be relieved as well, because instead of replacing the big striker when he first complained of the problem they kept him on until the break and then for another 15 minutes after the restart.
I guess this shows just how important the boss sees Giroud’s presence on the pitch at the moment and that is hardly surprising when you look at the red hot form he has been showing as he tries to prove to his manager that his place should be in the first team and not on the bench as it was for most of the first half of the season. That goal at the Liberty Stadium made him the first Arsenal player in nine years to score in five successive matches.
In a home game against Burnley, Arsenal are likely to need Giroud’s presence as a target man to link up the play and give us the extra danger of using the flanks and putting balls into the box if the central area is congested, so can Giroud make it six in a row against the Clarets and keep Arsenal’s title challenge alive?
Bob.
I have a feeling that this season we’ll have two players past the twenty league goal mark. In the running we have – Alexis pure TNT, – Giroud the second man made wall seen from Space, Finally – The Hot snot Walcott.
Bringing up the rear, we have massive outsider – Majestic Mesut freaking Ozil. Or if you fancy a 2.000/1 bet, we have Oxlade or Perez, Perez being the popular bet before season began. I’ll go with safe bet, TNT + man mountain.
I would expect at least a 3/1 win on Sunday with no matter which team Arsenal field. On Gerioud’s injury I am glad he is able to field but I want to raise a query on Arsenal injuries, when Wiltshire was with Arsenal he played about 5/6 games a season but surprise, surprise with Bournemouth he seems to be getting a full season on the pitch. Why is that? Are our medical team doing the wrong thing?
my opinion is that OG has proven himself in the last calendar year to be a top striker, its only us Arsenal supporters who don’t rate him the way the footballing world see him, this season he has the best minute to scoring ratio in the EPL, if he was playing for Chelsea we would all be wishing he was playing for us for double the salary and pay 60 to 70 million to buy him, almost every club has striker, defensive midfielders, and goalkeeper problems but not us we have a full squad for the first time for a ling time but some how we don’t rise to the challenge
You know Burnley are gonna pack it in the back, so starting OG, especially in the form he’s currently in, is a no-brainer. His aerial abilities are second to none, so just keep on sending those balls into the box, and eventually he should find a way to score a header. Or it’ll fall kindly for someone else.