Julien Giraud

Defensive Midfielder - LOSC Lille
24 Mar 2047
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Marked for Julien Giraud

1042 Edition

The LOSC Lille Herald

16 Jul 2046
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Jul 2046

A fracture rules Karl Schulze out for 36 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason LOSC Lille will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market16 Jul 2046

Timothy Chadli is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at LOSC Lille is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad16 Jul 2046

Maxima Goffi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at LOSC Lille this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad16 Jul 2046

Words at LOSC Lille training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Hawkins is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad16 Jul 2046

A late step up for Julien Giraud

At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Market16 Jul 2046

Dijon expected to open talks for Melvyn Otobo

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. LOSC Lille will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
1025 Edition

The LOSC Lille Herald

19 Mar 2046
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market19 Mar 2046

Only the photograph left for Timothy Chadli

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Timothy Chadli will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around LOSC Lille the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings19 Mar 2046

Simon Vertonghen shuts the door

Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad19 Mar 2046

Maxima Goffi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at LOSC Lille this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings19 Mar 2046

Thomas Hawkins runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match17 Mar 2046

Herba Guirassy sends LOSC Lille past Monaco

It finished 1‑0, and it was Herba Guirassy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to LOSC Lille.

Squad19 Mar 2046

No hiding place for Hervé Michel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hervé Michel, and the manager let it.

Squad19 Mar 2046

François Mendy falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings19 Mar 2046

The afternoon belonged to Herba Guirassy

7.71, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. LOSC Lille had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad19 Mar 2046

Maxima Goffi left out for tactical reasons at LOSC Lille

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

1008 Edition

The LOSC Lille Herald

20 Nov 2045
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad20 Nov 2045

Steven Graham decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match15 Nov 2045

LOSC Lille march on in the cup

RC Lens are out and LOSC Lille go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings20 Nov 2045

Herba Guirassy scores twice — 8.34

Two goals and a mark of 8.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad20 Nov 2045

Tempers go at LOSC Lille

Maxima Goffi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings20 Nov 2045

Julien Giraud runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match18 Nov 2045

LOSC Lille find a way past Monaco

Monaco made LOSC Lille work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad20 Nov 2045

Thomas Hawkins falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings20 Nov 2045

Nothing got past Markus Arnautovic

17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Player ratings20 Nov 2045

The kick that got away from Jean-Baptiste Giraud

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

In brief

1003 Edition

The LOSC Lille Herald

16 Oct 2045
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings16 Oct 2045

Maxima Goffi, 37, rolls back the years — 8.24

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.24 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad16 Oct 2045

Maxima Goffi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at LOSC Lille this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad16 Oct 2045

Julien Giraud gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Julien Giraud has just signed for LOSC Lille, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad16 Oct 2045

Words at LOSC Lille training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Hawkins is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match14 Oct 2045

Antoine Valero the difference as LOSC Lille beat Toulouse FC

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Antoine Valero. 2‑0 against Toulouse FC, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings16 Oct 2045

Simon Vertonghen was immovable

20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad16 Oct 2045

LOSC Lille count the cost of losing Édouard Guyot

14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings16 Oct 2045

Nobody could get near Antoine Bourgeois

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings16 Oct 2045

Off the bench and decisive: Piotr Piatek

The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. LOSC Lille were going nowhere until he came on.

In brief