Giroud overtakes Henry as France’s all-time objective scorer

Olivier Giroud has overtaken Thierry Henry to change into France’s all-time prime males’s scorer, netting his 52nd for Les Bleus within the World Cup round-of-16 sport in opposition to Poland on Sunday.

Giroud collected a go from Kylian Mbappe within the forty fourth minute and despatched a low shot along with his left foot previous Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, his former teammate at Arsenal.

The AC Milan striker had tied Henry’s report 51 objectives for the nationwide staff in France’s 4-1 win in opposition to Australia of their opening World Cup Group D match earlier within the match.

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Giroud, 36, grew to become France’s oldest objective scorer along with his header in a 2-0 win over Austria on Sept. 22, which took him to inside two objectives of the report, whereas his brace in opposition to the Socceroos in Qatar noticed him go Zinedine Zidane as his nation’s oldest scorer at a World Cup.

The previous Arsenal and Chelsea striker is now his nation’s outright prime scorer, adopted by Henry, who netted 51 instances from 123 caps between 1997 and 2010. Antoine Griezmann has 42 objectives, Michel Platini has 41 and Karim Benzema has 37.

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Giroud made his France debut aged 25 in 2011 when he got here off the bench in a pleasant win in opposition to the US and scored his first worldwide objective in opposition to Germany a yr later.

He has since scored 51 objectives in 117 appearances for the nationwide staff and helped Didier Deschamps’ facet win the World Cup in 2018, though he didn’t rating within the finals.

His presence in France’s squad, which had been unsure forward of the World Cup, wound up being very fortuitous for Deschamps after Benzema was dominated out earlier than their first sport resulting from damage.

Giroud has loved a glittering profession at membership and worldwide degree, profitable Ligue 1, Serie A, the Champions League, the Europa League and 4 FA Cup titles throughout spells with Montpellier, Arsenal, Chelsea and Milan.