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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

My Greatest Goal | Olivier Giroud's scorpion kick

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Sky Sports

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.0760 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Olivier Giroud, Martin Tyler and Wayne Hennessey look back at the former Arsenal striker's stunning 'scorpion kick' finish from 2017.

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0:00.0

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0:38.3

New Year's Day 2017. A struggling Crystal Palace arrived at the Emirates Stadium, hoping for a result that would move them further away from the bottom three. Arsenal though had other ideas. With eyes on leaders Chelsea, Olivier Giroux sent the gunners on their way to a 2-0 victory with a goal that would go down in Premier League folklore.

0:50.3

After we've got fire breaking here.

0:55.0

Sainchex.

0:57.0

I'm Josh Hayward and this is my greatest goal.

1:14.6

Today we'll relive Olivier Giroux's iconic scorpion kick and to do that, we're joined by the man himself,

1:20.6

alongside former Crystal Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessy and Sky Sports commentator Martin Tyler.

1:26.6

Olivia, let's cast you back to January the 1st, 2017.

1:31.3

You just got back in the Arsenal team, playing and scoring against West Bram on Boxing Day.

1:36.3

Were you in a good place, feeling positive heading into that match against Palace?

1:40.3

I was happy to be back in the team because it was a time, you know, after the Euro Cup,

1:49.0

Arsaint told me, you know, you always need time to rest, you know, mentally, physically.

1:57.0

And at that time also, at the beginning of the season, sometimes he preferred to play

2:03.6

Alexis or Theo wanted to pay at front sometimes.

2:07.6

So it was a good competition and I was glad to give Arsson confidence back when he trusts me. And it was a good recovery from Lucas.

2:21.3

And then we tried to play a quick attack.

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