Double scorer and passer in AC Milan’s big victory against Salzburg on Wednesday evening, Olivier Giroud was the main architect of the qualification of the Lombards in the knockout stages of the Champions League. At 36, the French striker pushes all the limits and it is hard to see how Didier Deschamps could not mention his name, in six days, when announcing the list of elected officials for the World Cup in Qatar. And it is not the recent words of Virgil van Dijk that will be able to lie the performance of the second top scorer in the history of the Blues.
Interviewed by Gary Neville on his show TheOverlapthe Liverpool and Netherlands centre-back has named the Frenchman the toughest opponent he has ever faced. “Olivier Giroud was the striker against whom I struggled the most. I still felt like I was holding him but somehow he still managed to score against us. Whether for Arsenal, Chelsea or with France, he has always scored. The year we won the Premier League, in the 2019/20 season, we beat Chelsea 5-2. We were winning 3-0 and he scored a rough goal, and I thought to myself that we were winning comfortably, but that he was still scoring against me, said the Batavian defender..
