Giroud, the record forward who gave France a pass to the quarterfinals

Giroud: goal, victory and record to leave France in the quarterfinals

Later, mbappe He secured the pass to the quarterfinals for Didier Deschamps’ team with two great goals in the second half. However, Giroud’s goal made him the top scorer in French history, with 52 goals.

Thus, Olivier GiroudThe 36-year-old had matched Thierry Henry with 51 goals after scoring twice in the defending champions’ 4-1 win over Australia on their Group D debut.

Now, the current striker of AC Milan broke the record in his match 118 with France and he scored his goal number 52while Henry scored 51 times in 123 games between 1997 and 2010.

The Qatar World Cup 2022 He has already left behind the group stage, which had as salient data being the first tournament without selected teams with an ideal score.

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The goal that was not and annulled the VAR

giroud he would have achieved his goal number 53, except that the VAR annulled the goal, which was a masterpiece since it was from Chile, in the air, almost from the vertex of the large area of ​​​​Poland.

The situation occurred 60 minutes into the game, when a corner kick from France It led to a rebound, which the forward took and defined in a lethal way.

However, the match referee received the call from the VAR and annulled the play, due to the foul in attack by a French defender against the Polish goalkeeper.