Olivier Giroud has hilariously shut down claims from Jason Cummings that he doesn't speak English.

The French forward enjoyed an impressive World Cup with France as he and his teammates made it all the way to the showpiece final.

It was heartbreak in the end for Giroud and France though as Lionel Messi's Argentina edged them out on penalties.

In the group stages France clashed with Australia, with former Rangers, Hibs and Dundee striker Cummings coming up against the European giants.

After the game he said: "After the France game, I actually tried to get Mbappe – forget Giroud, I went for the top boy Mbappe – and he told me to meet him in the changing rooms.

"So I went to the changing room and the kit man was there and I gave him my top and 10 minutes later he came out with my jersey and says: 'Nah, absolutely not, (Mbappe) doesn't want to swap'.

"So when I was walking back to my changing room and I've seen Giroud and I'm walking, as handsome as ever, and I asked him, 'Giroud, please man, can I get your shirt, man? I'm a big fan, can I get your shirt'.

"And he just walked past me, pretended he never spoke English! And he's been in the Premier League for 10 years! He just walked right past me!"

Now Giroud has hilariously shut down those claims by posting Jackson Irvine's shirt on Twitter.

He wrote: "Hi @jacksonirvine_, how is my English mate?"

Meanwhile, Connor Goldson believes Rangers need to take encouragement and belief from successive comeback wins under new boss Michael Beale up to Dingwall on Friday night.

Two stunning Scott Arfield goals in the final two minutes of seven added on against Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Tuesday night gave the Light Blues a remarkable 3-2 cinch Premiership win.

For Beale, the former assistant coach to ex-boss Steven Gerrard, it was a second 3-2 comeback win after beating Hibernian by the same scoreline last Thursday at Ibrox as attention turns to his third game in charge, away to Ross County.

Goldson, back in the Gers central defence for the first time since October after recovering from a thigh injury, told RangersTV how important it was to build on two hard-fought victories.

He said: “I don’t think it was the best we have played or the best we will play.

“But at the same time, over a season you have to pick up three points sometimes playing ugly and hopefully with those two victories – a home and away win against two of the better teams in the league – it can build confidence.

“Hopefully it can give the whole group confidence to go into Friday and get another three points.

“I am sure the manager will analyse a lot of things and how we can improve – which we need to – but at the same time, we got three points and it makes for a happy changing room.

“In the last six to eight weeks when I was watching from the stand, we probably wouldn’t have won those games.

“I have been watching like the fans, it hasn’t been nice, because when we have conceded goals it has looked like we couldn’t come back into games.

“Obviously the boys have tried their best but it hasn’t happened, we haven’t created chances but we kept going and luckily got two chances and Scotty put them away.

“Hopefully we get a bit of confidence back as a whole group and start picking up three points more often.”