Olivier Giroud scored two more goals for France last night in their win over Gibraltar which makes it nine for the season for club and country, but AC Milan cannot rest easy despite his scoring run.
As MilanNews writes, it is not so much that Giroud is a problem for Milan or that he is too old – because he appears to be ageing like Benjamin Button, as Zlatan Ibrahimovic would say – but rather that the team rely too much on him and only him for goals from the striker position.
Giroud is like wine: the older he gets, the more he improves. However, Stefano Pioli will not have the French striker available for the next two league matches against Fiorentina and Frosinone after he got sent off for arguing with the referee, showing that some people perhaps don’t mellow with age.
At 37 years old, he cannot have the same physical continuity and energy reserves as someone 15 years younger and for this reason, the Rossoneri management are looking for various profiles for the future.
Among them are Serhou Guirassy of Stuttgart, Jonathan David of Lille and Akor Adams from Montpellier. Regarding the latter, Milan’s eyes also focused on certain technical characteristics which make him perhaps an ideal centre-forward, in addition to his goals of course.
However, we must not forget that Luka Jovic and Noah Okafor are also currently in the squad, who will have an important role in the next two league games. They have different characteristics and occupy the area in different ways.
Okafor has perhaps more technical quality, movement and dynamism, while Jovic is more known for having physical presence in the area and build-up play to bring in the runs of the wingers and the midfielders.
Unless Rafa Leao recovers from injury, the two attackers will be protagonists both from the first minute and from the bench. It will then be up to Pioli to understand who will help the cause the most.
