Olivier Giroud suffers GRUESOME head injury during France friendly with USA – WATCH

THIS is the moment Olivier Giroud suffered a horror head injury during France’s friendly with the USA.

By Izzy Horsefield

PUBLISHED: 00:38, Sun, Jun 10, 2018 | UPDATED: 00:43, Sun, Jun 10, 2018

Chelsea star Giroud was hauled off in the 58th minute after he collided with USA ace Matt Miazga.

The striker was seen jumping to head the ball, however as USA goalkeeper Zack Steffen tried to punch the ball away, he ended up pushing Giroud and Miazga’s heads together.

The pair collided in sickening style and were then seen clutching their faces and were both very bloody.

Frenchman Giroud left the pitch with a bandage covering a gruesome cut to his forehead and he was replaced by Ousmane Dembele.

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Olivier Giroud suffered a gruesome head injury during a friendly with the USA

American ace Miazga was also unable to play on and Erik Palmer-Brown was quickly called upon to take his place.

France are taking on USA in their final warm-up game ahead of the World Cup in Russia.

Julian Green opened the scoring for the visitors shortly before half-time before Kylian Mbappe equalised 12 minutes from time.

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Olivier Giroud and Matt Miazga suffered gruesome injuries after a clash of heads

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Giroud was treated on the field before being replaced

France will soon be heading out to Russia to begin their final preparations ahead of the tournament which starts on Thursday when the hosts take on Saudi Arabia.

Didier Deschamps side take on Australia in their opening Group C game on Saturday.

France will face Peru five days later before their final group game against Denmark.