Olivier Giroud must be Chelsea’s beginning striker, based on Mario Melchiot.
The £45million summer time arrival of Timo Werner and Tammy Abraham’s type pushed the 34-year-old down the pecking order within the early levels of the season.
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Nonetheless, Giroud has has scored seven targets in as many video games to drive his method again into Frank Lampard’s aspect.
His newest aim got here in Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat to Wolves on Tuesday as Werner’s scoreless run stretched to eight matches.
Melchiot, who performed 165 appearances for Chelsea between 1999 and 2004, believes Lampard has a simple choice to make in terms of who his principal striker is.
He advised Wednesday’s talkSPORT Breakfast: “How do you are taking a scoring striker out of the group?
“Giroud has scored then he scores one other aim, now he scores once more. The man is in sizzling type.
“When a striker is in sizzling type, the coach doesn’t even suppose as a result of he’s considering for the coach.
“He’s telling him, ‘Frank, I’m the scoring man to your group, put me in’. Frank isn’t going to suppose, ‘no, I can’t put him in’.
“He has to place him in as a result of he scores the targets. Yesterday he scored once more. He wants to steer the road at this level.”
