Swansea City was a positive experience ahead of their
meeting with Bayern Munich.
Olivier Giroud believes Arsenal's 3-0 Premier League win over
Swansea City will play a key role in their vital Champions
League trip to Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
Arsenal scored all three goals following the interval as Giroud,
Laurent Koscielny and Joel Campbell all found the back of the
net at Liberty Stadium on Saturday.
Giroud, who has been drafted back into Arsene Wenger's
starting line-up following Theo Walcott's injury, netted his
seventh goal of the campaign in the away win and was
impressed by the team's patient display.
"It was definitely a good win," he told Arsenal's official website.
"We needed this win before the big game on Wednesday. We
started slowly but we were creating chances to score. We
needed to wait until the second half to put it in and to score
three goals and even more, get another clean sheet.
Swansea had won the last two meetings between the sides and
France international striker Giroud believes the initial struggle to
break down their opponents could prove a key experience ahead
of their European challenge.
"We needed to change that [record]," he said.
"We had two difficult games against Swansea and to play here
and, as I said, it was not easy in the first half but we succeeded
to play our game; more in between the lines with more technique
and we were efficient up front and at the back as well.
"We are really pleased with this game so hopefully we can win
the second leg [against Bayern Munich] as well."
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