Now that explain's
the goal drought since the window closed?
Even though I thought that the way Norwich had set up and the lack of width from our so - called wide players was not helping him, I thought it was sure to be Giroud to get the hook, especially with his confidence at rock bottom after his longest
goal drought since joining the Gunners.
Not exact matches
To be fair to the Arsenal and France international centre forward Olivier Giroud, his
goal scoring form for club and country
since breaking the long
drought in front of
goal that was plaguing him earlier this year has been very good.
Fernando Torres has been ripped to shreds for his performances over the last few seasons — the man who scored the Euro 2008 - winning
goal has struggled with both club and country
since then — and although things were bad during his final seasons at Liverpool, they got even worse after a # 50M transfer to Chelsea, where the price tag combined with an incredible
goal drought left him as the butt of jokes throughout England.
The aforementioned Leo Jaba who started off impressively in Russian football, scoring two
goals in his first four games for Akhmat, has not scored
since in the league, a
drought of eleven matches.
After Marouane Chamakh broke his
goal drought - stretching back to November - by turning in a Tomas Rosicky cross, it looked as if this would be one of those nights where the team's technical proficiency would be far too much for their lower league counterparts to handle (it's been a while
since we've had one of those games).