Giroud happy about team perfromance rather than his man-of-the-man performance

Olivier Giroud scored two goals and set up another as the Euro 2016 hosts France thrashed Iceland 5-2 on Sunday to set up a semi-final clash against world champions Germany.

However, the Arsenal forward has claimed that the team's effort and achievement is more important than his own personal performance. 

"It's always nice to be named man of the match but, first and foremost, it's about the team reaching the semi-finals and our performance," he told reporters.

"We scored five goals and are very pleased, although we did concede two. Iceland didn't give up at any stage of the match as we knew they were a very valiant side, a very determined outfit.

"They kept going right until the end and I'd like to give them a lot of credit because they had a great campaign in the European Championships.

"We're going to savour this victory. We are going to rest up and focus once again for Thursday because we have a big match against the world champions.

"From my perspective, I'm pleased, nothing more than that. I am pleased for the team, my family and the French public as a whole.

"I don't know if it's my best performance (for France). I have played some other good games as well, but in a major tournament that is perhaps my best performance, if you will. I felt really good physically right from the start of the game.

"We're used to making bad starts to matches and we were able to change that," Giroud said. "That's good going forward, we need to retain that.

"We were on top right from the first few minutes and we were very clinical, so that's nice. From a personal perspective it is good as well and I am scoring once again."