The 36-year-old striker has grow to be France’s all-time prime objective scorer, surpassing Thierry Henry – however Kylian Mbappe just isn’t far behind.
France striker Olivier Giroud has written his identify into the historical past books after scoring towards Poland within the spherical of 16 of the soccer World Cup in Qatar to grow to be the nationwide group’s all-time prime scorer, with 52 targets.
The 36-year-old on Sunday picked up a cross from Kylian Mbappe within the forty fourth minute contained in the field and despatched a low shot along with his left foot previous Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny, his former teammate at Arsenal, to fireplace Les Bleus forward at Sunday’s conflict at Al Thumama Stadium.
The AC Milan striker had matched France nice Thierry Henry’s 51-goal document with a brace in a 4-1 win over Australia in his nation’s World Cup opener, leaving him one shy of the outright benchmark.
Giroud would doubtless not have began for Didier Deschamps’s facet if it had not been for pre-tournament accidents to Karim Benzema and Christopher Nkunku.
As an alternative, Giroud and star participant Mbappe have been tasked with carrying the attacking burden as France purpose to defend their World Cup crown.
France simply beat Poland 3-1 to succeed in the match’s final 8, with Mbappe scoring the opposite two targets for Les Bleus to succeed in 33 worldwide targets, at simply 23 years outdated.
France’s prime objective scorers
- Olivier Giroud: 52
- Thierry Henry: 51
- Antoine Griezmann: 42
- Michel Platini: 41
- Karim Benzema: 37
- David Trezeguet: 34
- Kylian Mbappe: 33
- Zinedine Zidane: 31
