Damning Giroud stat paints worrying picture for Milan strikers | OneFootball

Milan’s forwards have not all fully clicked in front of goal this season, and while much of the criticism has revolved around Rafael Leao, a damning stat from last season shows that the Rossoneri also have difficulties at centre-forward, as well as on the left-wing.

Worrying Giroud stat for Milan

Milan’s three senior centre-forwards, Alvaro Morata, Tammy Abraham and Luka Jovic have come up with three goals between them from 10 matches so far in Serie A this season; two coming from the Spaniard and one from the former Chelsea striker.

Worryingly for Milan, last season’s centre-forward Olivier Giroud managed to score the same number of goals in his first two matches of the 2023-24 season. The Frenchman then went one better by scoring his fourth Serie A goal of the campaign in his third league match.

Olivier Giroud of AC Milan scores his team’s third goal during the Serie A TIM match between AC Milan and Genoa CFC at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on May 05, 2024. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)

The goalscoring onus this season has fallen on Christian Pulisic’s shoulders. The USMNT star currently has five goals from nine appearances. Only he, Morata and Theo Hernandez (both on two) have scored more than one Serie A goal after 10 matches.

What is also alarming for the Rossoneri is that all of their closest rivals all have strikers who have hit the ground running in 2024-25.

The league leaders, Napoli, have Romelu Lukaku, who is averaging a goal involvement every game in Serie A, Inter have Marcus Thuram on seven goals and two assists from 10 games, Juventus’s Dusan Vlahovic is the division’s third highest goalscorer with six, while Atalanta have the current Capocannoniere, Mateo Retegui on 10 goals from 10 games.