Author of three goals and an assist in six Serie A games, as well as one achievement in two Champions League games, Olivier Giroud makes a smashing start to the season with AC Milan. Difficult for him to do better, and for Didier Deschamps not to summon him. Especially since the French technician cannot count on Karim Benzema, injured.
The striker with 112 selections was therefore called up again, this Thursday, for France’s two matches in the Nations League, against Austria on Thursday September 22, then against Denmark, three days later.
The opportunity for the former pailladin to gain more ground on Thierry Henry, he who is only three units from his record of goals in Blues (51). But the possibility, above all, of still scoring points and convince the coach to take him with him to Qatarfor the next World Cup (November 21 – December 18).
Nothing is less certain, however. The two goals scored by the 35-year-old against South Africa and Ivory Coast in Marchhad indeed not been enough in the eyes of Didier Deschamps, who had not called him during the last rally in June.