Unlike Manchester united players Olivier Giroud grabbed a fantastic hat-trick as Arsenal crushed Olympiakos Piraeus 3-0 to seal their place in the Champions League’s last 16 with an inspiring demolition job that ended the hopes of their Greek opponents on Wednesday.
With Arsenal needing a victory like that to make it out of Group F, France forward Giroud produced a classy display of finishing to ensure the English club finished second, level on nine points with Olympiakos, but ahead by virtue of their better head-to-head record.
Giroud opened the scoring with a powerful header in the first half, doubled Arsenal’s advantage with a calm left-footed finish quickly after the restart and rounded off a superb individual display with a penalty.
The victory completed a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for Arsenal who lost three of their first four games of the campaign and needed to win by any result other than 1-0 or 2-1 in their decisive group clash to finish second behind group winners Bayern Munich.
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