Doku returned to the team on Tuesday, after the birth of his son, which caused him to leave the national team camp for a while. He featured in the 1-1 draw against Egypt but gave the Iran clash a miss due to breathing issues faced while training.<\/p>\n
Garcia said to reporters, as quoted by Reuters, “Jeremy came back three days ago. So, he only participated in the practice today. He did a little more, but he did not train for seven days, and that is not insignificant.”<\/p>\n
“So, we’re thrilled to have him back. He is probably not going to play for 90 minutes. But we know that he can make a difference once on the pitch.”<\/p>\n
“But all our game is not based upon one player. It is the collective spirit. That is the true force of Belgium,” added the coach.<\/p>\n
Lukaku, still searching for his first goal in the tournament, will also be unable to play full 90 minutes of the match, with the coach saying that while he is fit, he “cannot handle 90 minutes”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doku returned to the team on Tuesday, after the birth of his son, which caused him to leave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,14268,14265,5429,14264,10450,5411,14266,3933,5419,14267,5400,5407],"class_list":["post-24090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-attack","tag-belgium-fitness","tag-belgium-squad","tag-belgium-vs-new-zealand","tag-belgium-world-cup","tag-brandon-mechele","tag-doku-fitness","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-jeremy-doku","tag-lukaku-fitness","tag-romelu-lukaku","tag-rudi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116816298781957210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}