I understand why Arsene Wenger hooked Olivier
Giroud off to be able to bring on Gabriel to play at centre - back, especially if there had been an injury doubt over the Frenchman before the game, but Arsenal missed him badly.
Arsenal played well and showed great character with 10 men against Chelsea, but taking striker Olivier
Giroud off after 22 minutes was a mistake that cost them the chance to get something from the game.
The manager's tactics have also been placed in doubt once more after the decision to take the big French centre forward Olivier
Giroud off in order to bring Gabriel on after Mertsacker's red card.
Which is to drive a hard bargain and save some dough, since they know we want
giroud off more than they want him, cos aubameyang deal hinges on michy heading to dotmund.
We are not just talking about the win over Norwich City on Saturday either, even though that match and the decision of the manager to take Alex Iwobi and not Olivier
Giroud off when he brought on Welbeck after the break.
The goal was a header from Olivier
Giroud off a Santi Cazorla free kick.
Watching the game last night was really frustrating when they took
giroud off and we were crossing the ball in to no one walking did nt even look like he was bothered or even on the pitch u can't cross a ball to a player like walcott or even play him as a single striker he just ai nt good enough i really liked walcott but i honestly cant see him as a striker for arsenal, he's better on the wing, my opinion we should get dm and spend whatever money is left on a bloody striker and not a shit 1, someone when a opposing team looks on the team sheet and thinks ah he's gonna give us some shit today
Mourinho with the audaicity to slate Arsenal for taking
Giroud off when he brought Zouma on for Fabregas.
I'd like to take
Giroud off too, but there's no one to replace him with.
For the time being play
Giroud off the bench or start Giroud when Alexis is not playing.
I'd say we need to take either wellbeck or
giroud off and put an extra midfielder on because we are being overrun..
Take
giroud off, bring in the Ox.......
Wenger sent Aaron Ramsey out to warm up, but we were all surprised when he took a frustrated
Giroud off to put the Welshman on.
For me ox for welbeck or
giroud off welbeck up front and ox on.
Shame we just couldn't capitalize on it and had already taken
Giroud off.
Would prefer to think of this as each club helping themselves, but we are paying the premium to get Auba, while weakening Plan B with
Giroud off the bench, a role in which he delivers often.
A few things more what I liked about yesterday is... Walcott telling
Giroud off for not running in on goal.
Sanchez and
Giroud off the bench or elneny of he is signed and we are in a good position.
At times I think the main reason Arsene Wenger is reluctant to take
Giroud off even when he clearly wasn't performing is becoz without him on the pitch, we would be left with Mert and Kos / Gab to defend corners and freekicks.
And why is AW taking
Giroud off and putting Walcott on ST, the man can't him a barn door, horrible at the moment.
I would have pulled
Giroud off after the first ten minutes lol Wtf is he on??
Giroud off for Weblz 15 minutes later, play for the counter for the last 30 minutes.
Wrong decision taking
Giroud off though..
we passed on higuain, he ended up w about 40 goals this season in the league alone, I think we are hoisting the trophy with gonzalo, and
giroud off the bench
If taking
Giroud off is making sense iyo I'd suggest to rewatch the last part of the match because Welbeck was nowhere all game and is not of any use in arial defence when under pressure against a super offensive playing Liverpool.
Maybe
Giroud off as well.
I'd rather see Chamberlain at forward if that's what it takes to get him on the field and
Giroud off.
Take Cazorla and
Giroud off, bring on Podolski and Welbeck.
Then took
Giroud off and started crossing it in when we don't have our 6» 4 target man there to head it in.
Why bring Oxlade - Chamberlain on to get the ball into the box more, but take
Giroud off so there's no one to recieve it and put it in the goal?
Ramsey and
giroud off at half time Walcott and wilshere on..
Welbeck, for all his hard effort can not hold the ball up, yet he took
Giroud off who can hold the ball up.
Not exact matches
3rd Goal: No surprise Nastasic was the defender who needed to make the challenge on
Giroud but he was sleeping and reacted very late to challenge on
Giroud who was thus able to get the shot
off easily around him.
It feels counter-intuitive but I think
Giroud makes more impact
off the bench than Theo does.
I know we're short in central midfield, but Arsenal would actually be better
off playing with a man less, than having Ramsey on the pitch, and
Giroud proved over a whopping FOUR YEARS, that he isn't good to be our main striker.
Players like Campbell, Monreal,
Giroud all have worked their butts
off to get first team spots.
It looks like we are going to have two strikers in Sanchez and
Giroud, and surprisingly Wenger has also started with Ramsey, despite the Welshman only playing a cameo role at the weekend.I personally would have thought he would only have played half a game, but maybe Wenger intends to take him
off at half - time?
Yesterday Man Utd and City played real great yo be honest.Yes
Giroud was sent
off but the first goal was scored before that and starting from the first minute there was no desire and fight.
It was on
off game for
Giroud.
We missed
Giroud's aeriel prowess in the dying minutes — he'll have been useful
off the bench.
however a pet peeve is seeing a player like
Giroud be SLAGGED
OFF like he is scum.
yes, it would have been hard to predict that all our forwards would go
off the boil at once (in previous seasons, there have been months where the team was carried by 1 person, be it
giroud, sanchez or theo but this year nobody is hot).
Stop all these useless articles.get
off his back and
giroud as well.they are our top and main player's.
sanchez was a lot worse than ozil today, ozil actually managed to penetrate the penalty area when
giroud was subbed
off and sanchez as a wide forward should have been making better runs behind, just my opinion
Yes Olivier
Giroud did over-celebrate when grabbing that equalising goal, but the rest of our team, including Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, was quick to get back into our own half for the kick -
off, with the former Saints man eager to get the French goalscorer back to the game.
Wenger has a decision to make next Sunday, when Arsenal kick
off their Premier League campaign against Liverpool at the Emirates, because Le Prof will have to decide whether to go with Walcott or Alexis up front, in Olivier
Giroud's absence.
Giroud will want to do better and he puts plenty of pressure on himself but Wenger likes him and will not be hauling him
off for a slightly ineffective first half.
Walcott lived 10 happy years
off Arsenal, only coming good in rare moments while
Giroud will never truly be a top striker, despite being Frances main choice.