In the duel between Parisian Randal Kolo Muani and Milanese Olivier Giroud, it was the veteran Rossonero who took the upper hand on Tuesday evening in the Champions League. Enough to assert your position among the Blues?
The generational struggle continues in the French team. This time, it was through clubs that it took place. Coincidentally with the calendar, two days before Didier Deschamps announced the list (Thursday, at 2 p.m.) for the next Blues gathering, Randal Kolo Muani and Olivier Giroud had the opportunity to cross paths on Tuesday evening. Opposed in the meeting between AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain (2-1, fourth day of the Champions League), the two French leading attackers were able to measure themselves. And in this little game, it was the Milanese veteran who took the upper hand.
A new coup for Olivier Giroud, scorer of the winning goal for AC Milan, while Randal Kolo Muani was once again absent from Paris Saint-Germain. This season, the “matches played-goals scored” ratio is quite seriously in favor of Giroud who has seven goals in fourteen matches, all competitions combined, compared to three in eleven matches for his teammate from the France team. While Didier Deschamps tends to favor Kolo Muani (or Marcus Thuram) as a starting striker, this new performance from Olivier Giroud could be important.
Euro 2024 is coming quickly
Third thief of this trio, the son of Lilian Thuram has five pawns in fourteen appearances this season, enough to place himself in the middle of his two French sidekicks. While the French team’s next two matches will be played respectively against Gibraltar (November 18) and Greece (21), who will have the honor of starting? Didier Deschamps should rotate from one match to the next and it is not really on this gathering that the order of the hierarchy should be shaken up. On the other hand, if the trend continues, the fight between Olivier Giroud and Randal Kolo Muani is far from over, just a few months before Euro 2024.
