Pep Guardiola heaps praise on “amazing” Man City star after reaching unique creative milestone

Pep Guardiola believes that winger Jeremy Doku is present knowing what it takes to “make an impact” arsenic a potent goalscoring and originative menace for Manchester City.

The communicative surrounding Doku’s deficiency of an extremity merchandise has shifted importantly this season, with the Belgium planetary contributing to 21 goals (seven goals, 14 assists) successful 42 appearances for the Citizens crossed each competitions.

Doku is presently successful red-hot signifier having registered six extremity contributions successful his past 5 Man City matches, scoring 4 goals and assisting two.

The 23-year-old scored successful City’s comfy 3-0 Premier League triumph astatine Chelsea past period and acceptable up the lone extremity of the crippled scored by Erling Haaland successful a constrictive 1-0 triumph implicit Burnley.

Doku besides delivered a game-changing show successful the FA Cup semi-finals astatine Wembley, coming disconnected the substitutes’ seat to people and assistance successful the Citizens’ 2-1 comeback triumph implicit Southampton.

He astir precocious produced a man-of-the-match show connected Monday, scoring 2 fantastic curling strikes, including a 96th-minute equaliser, to snatch a constituent for Man City successful a breathtaking 3-3 gully with Everton successful the Premier League.

Guardiola connected Doku: “I’m truthful gladsome he’s made the step”

Doku is expected to clasp his starting spot connected the near flank erstwhile Man City invited Brentford to the Etihad Stadium connected Saturday, and caput of the contest, Guardiola has heaped praise connected the winger’s “impact” successful beforehand of goal.

At a property league connected Friday, Guardiola was asked astir what helium believes the crushed is down Doku’s summation successful productivity, and helium jokingly replied: “[It’s due to the fact that of] the manager, always! When the players play good, it’s due to the fact that of the manager, if they’re atrocious it’s them.

He added: “I’m truthful gladsome he’s made the measurement to score, and feels the winger has to people and marque an interaction not conscionable the enactment 1 against one, not conscionable the goals and assists, but his contributions defensively.

“Jeremy has been astonishing this season, amazing.”

In the Premier League, each 50 of Doku’s chances created for Man City this play person been from unfastened play, and this represents the astir chances created by immoderate subordinate successful the part without immoderate coming from a azygous set-piece situation.

Doku’s awesome emergence successful signifier has travel astatine an important clip for Man City, who are inactive harbouring aspirations of winning a home treble, adjacent though their Premier League rubric hopes person taken a deed pursuing the gully with Everton.

Doku: “We are going to combat until the end”

"We cognize however important it is to triumph those types of games," a defiant Doku told reporters aft City's gully with Everton. "We did not springiness up and we are not going to springiness up.

“There are inactive immoderate games. We are going to combat until the end, and astatine the extremity we volition number the points.

"[We are] disappointed but it is not over. We are going to retrieve now, instrumentality the positives, instrumentality the negatives and enactment connected it.

"We person a engaged docket and we are going to look forward. We are inactive successful 2 competitions and we person a last to play. One constituent is amended than nothing. We came for 3 points and it did not enactment out."

Man City presently beryllium 2nd successful the Premier League array and volition determination to wrong 2 points of leaders Arsenal if they triumph against Brentford connected Saturday, earlier the Gunners question to West Ham United connected Sunday.