‘Top quality No 9s’ Giroud and Cavani inspire team-mates as perfect athletes, says Tuchel

The two experienced strikers will be bidding to decide Sunday’s match between Chelsea and Manchester United in favour of their teams

Thomas Tuchel is impressed the impact two 34-year-old strikers, Olivier Giroud and Edinson Cavani, are having this season on Chelsea and Manchester United respectively.

Giroud scored an acrobatic overhead kick in Chelsea’s midweek 1-0 Champions League win away at Atletico Madrid. Meanwhile, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is hoping Cavani will return from a minor injury to face the Blues at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

That meeting could see the Uruguayan go up against his former manager at PSG in Tuchel, and the German spoke of how impressive both strikers are behind-the-scenes. Read More