A page turned in the summer of 2024 for Olivier Giroud. After seventeen years spent playing in various European championships, the 2018 world champion chose to fly away for Major League Soccer. For this new experience, he opted for Los Angeles FC, club of his former acolyte among the Blues, Hugo Lloris. But since his arrival, Olivier Giroud remained desperately silent in front of the opposing cages. He ended this period this Sunday.
The LAFC went to Portland as part of the ninth day of the championship. The meeting gave rise to a superb attacking show with the trifle of six scored goals (3-3). During this match without winner, Olivier Giroud therefore had the great joy of scoring his very first goal with his new club. It is not in the game that the center-forward marked, but on a perfectly struck free kick.
While the break was approaching and Portland led 2-0, Olivier Giroud took responsibility for this stopped kick. Full axis twenty meters, the former Arsenal rushed and brushed the ball from an interior of the left. The ball bypassed the wall, continued to rise before falling back to type the bottom of the opposing transverse … and finish in the bottom of the nets. What provoke the joy of an Olivier Giroud quickly congratulated by his teammate, Denis Bouanga.
Los Angeles is counting on his scorer
The top scorer in the history of the Blues (fifty-seven achievements) therefore made the powder speak for the very first time of the season after nine games. Since he joined Los Angeles, Olivier Giroud has played fifteen games. His very first goal will inevitably do him a lot of good morale and perhaps launch it finally. Very irregular, his team will need him to find a little more stability.
After nine days in MLS, the LAFC points to seventh row in the classification of the Western Conference with four victories, as many defeats and a draw. The leader is more than ever Vancouver. The Whitecaps are four points ahead of their first pursuer, Austin.
