Olivier Giroud has overtaken Thierry Henry to go France's all-time apical men's scorer, netting his 52nd for Les Bleus successful the World Cup round-of-16 crippled against Poland connected Sunday.
Giroud collected a walk from Kylian Mbappe successful the 44th infinitesimal and sent a debased changeable with his near ft past Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, his erstwhile teammate astatine Arsenal.
The AC Milan striker had tied Henry's grounds 51 goals for the nationalist squad successful France's 4-1 triumph against Australia successful their opening World Cup Group D lucifer earlier successful the tournament.
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Giroud, 36, became France's oldest extremity scorer with his header successful a 2-0 triumph implicit Austria connected Sept. 22, which took him to wrong 2 goals of the record, portion his brace against the Socceroos successful Qatar saw him walk Zinedine Zidane arsenic his country's oldest scorer astatine a World Cup.
The erstwhile Arsenal and Chelsea striker is present his country's outright apical scorer, followed by Henry, who netted 51 times from 123 caps betwixt 1997 and 2010. Antoine Griezmann has 42 goals, Michel Platini has 41 and Karim Benzema has 37.
Giroud made his France debut aged 25 successful 2011 erstwhile helium came disconnected the seat successful a affable triumph against the United States and scored his archetypal planetary extremity against Germany a twelvemonth later.
He has since scored 51 goals successful 117 appearances for the nationalist squad and helped Didier Deschamps' broadside triumph the World Cup successful 2018, though helium did not people successful the finals.
His beingness successful France's squad, which had been successful uncertainty up of the World Cup, coiled up being precise fortuitous for Deschamps aft Benzema was ruled retired earlier their archetypal crippled owed to injury.
Giroud has enjoyed a glittering vocation astatine nine and planetary level, winning Ligue 1, Serie A, the Champions League, the Europa League and 4 FA Cup titles crossed spells with Montpellier, Arsenal, Chelsea and Milan.
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