10 games, 8 goals and 3 assists: Antoine Griezmann’s MLS start ranks with the greats | OneFootball

Antoine Griezmann has hit the ground running for Orlando City, producing eight goals and three assists in his first 10 MLS matches.

The 35-year-old scored before half-time in a 3-0 win over Toronto, underlining his continuing impact. L'Équipe notes that this start already places him among the league’s most prolific new arrivals.

Only Son Heung-Min at Los Angeles FC, Thomas Müller at Vancouver Whitecaps and Luis Suarez at Inter Miami have matched 11 goal involvements after 10 MLS outings, albeit with different splits between goals and assists.

Behind that quartet come Didier Drogba (9 + 1, Montreal Impact), Robert Lewandowski (6 + 2, Chicago Fire), Lionel Messi (5 + 3, Inter Miami) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic (5 + 1, LA Galaxy).

On this metric across MLS history, only Adama Diomande (9 + 3, Los Angeles FC) and Eduardo Hurtado (8 + 4, Los Angeles Galaxy) have surpassed him, each with 12.

His momentum could lift those numbers again, with seven goals in his last five outings including two braces. He is only the second Orlando player to score in five straight regular-season matches and the first to do so within a single season, with Dom Dwyer’s previous streak spanning 2017 and 2018.

Source: L'Équipe

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