The five best Arsenal players this season: Mesut Ozil misses out for resurgent midfield counterpart

3. Olivier Giroud

It looked as though it wouldn’t be the Frenchman’s season this time around. Breaking his foot early on in the season seemed to suggest that new boy Danny Welbeck would be leading the line from then on. But fans should know by now that you can’t keep a good striker down, and he recovered sufficiently to become the club’s leading goalscorer.