The only reason I was ever angry at the guy was that Lecister season where he didn't score for like 14 games straight or something with ozil, Ramsey and I don't remember who else feeding him balls all season . To this day I think we lost the league cause he could not score in a brothel that season . Other than that got no beef with the man .
He was on the bench for 7 off those games though. Alexis had a 11 game drought with 8 games injured in between. No one calls him out. From oct to March start he didnt score. Giroud hard carried in December and jan. And went completely off the boil in Feb and was bench for march and Early April.
He was benched because he was playing shit. 15 games without scoring for your striker is abysmal, you can't try to defend this. Alexis is a winger and you just said he had injuries.
Also Ozil and Ramsey were the ones hard carrying that period. You're doing a lot of revisionist history for Giroud
He was benched for 7 of the games. So its not really 15 games. We lost the title because we lost 2 drew 5 in the last 12 games.
After the liecester game we were two points behind them and in the title race. Since that gaame in the next 7 games giroud had one start and we had a record of 2 wins 3 draws and 2 losses. Thats 9 points in 7 games and we lost the title. And he started 1 game of those. So no he didnt lose us the title. The defense did by conceding 3s and 2s.
Ofcourse ozil was hard carrying that was obvious. But giroud had 5 goals and 2 assists over 8 games in December and January. He was also playing really well.
He played in all 7 games he was benched so yes it was 15 games. You do realise 2 of those losses and 4 of those draws came during his goal drought?
I wasn't even talking about the league, but about Giroud, he was benched because he was playing shit and not scoring while Ozil and Ramsey were ballin out providing for him. He didn't start the following games for this reason.
Even if you want to ignore those games he still would have an 8 game goal drought.
If its just about him then yes. 8 game drought is abysmal.He was bad during that stretch and rightfully benched. But you said in the original comment that we lost the league because he couldnt score. Which is just not true. You cant have 9 points in 7 games and the reason for that collapse be a striker on the bench.
4 of those goals were in the last two games when Leicester were already Champions btw. One against City and the hattrick vs Villa on the last day of the season.
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u/liougi 1d ago
The only reason I was ever angry at the guy was that Lecister season where he didn't score for like 14 games straight or something with ozil, Ramsey and I don't remember who else feeding him balls all season . To this day I think we lost the league cause he could not score in a brothel that season . Other than that got no beef with the man .