{"id":477355,"date":"2026-05-10T06:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477355\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:37:13","slug":"man-city-pep-knows-its-on-as-flying-doku-inspires-3-0-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477355\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City: &#8216;Pep knows it&#8217;s on&#8217; as &#8216;flying&#8217; Doku inspires 3-0 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Doku continued his brilliant form as Manchester City beat Brentford 3-0 at the Etihad to keep their Premier League title dreams alive.<\/p>\n<p>Doku netted a superb brace at Everton on Monday, and his stoppage-time strike rescued a 3-3 draw for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Man City<\/strong><\/a> on Merseyside. The left winger starred again on Saturday, opening the scoring on the hour mark in excellent fashion.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving a short corner from Bernardo Silva, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/jeremy-doku\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Doku<\/strong><\/a> first lost possession before winning it back. He proceeded to cut inside on his right foot and bend an accurate strike into the far corner, similar to his late leveller against Everton.<\/p>\n<p>Doku breaking the deadlock was crucial for City, and Erling Haaland joined him on the scoresheet in the 75th minute. Haaland\u2019s goal was not as impressive, but City won\u2019t care. He managed to bundle a backheel over the line after great work from Antoine Semenyo.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland then turned provider, setting up Omar Marmoush for City\u2019s third and final goal as Brentford were swept aside.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports<\/a> co-commentator Alan Smith reacted to Doku\u2019s goal by saying he is \u2018flying\u2019, while Daniel Sturridge called it \u2018a thing of beauty\u2019 and praised his \u2018exceptional\u2019 form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/erling-haaland-ridiculous-stats-half-decent-start-premier-league-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The ridiculous stats of Erling Haaland as he overtakes Heskey and Giggs for Premier League goals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At full-time, Micah Richards said of City: \u201cThey know it [the title race] is on. Because that\u2019s what they do, that\u2019s what champions do. They fight all the way to the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the difference. That\u2019s why you can never write off Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaaland in the first half was quiet, in the second half he was very good, in terms of his movement and then the assist for Marmoush at the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you can always tell, look at Pep\u2019s face. When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/pep-guardiola\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pep<\/strong><\/a> knows it\u2019s on, he has that little smirk.<\/p>\n<p>Man City can \u2018start to believe now\u2019 \u2013 Richards<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoku has been brilliant. Really good against Everton, turned up again today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just start to believe now. That first half, there was groaning, the performance wasn\u2019t great, but then second half, they do what City do and apply that pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd tomorrow\u2019s game [West Ham vs Arsenal] is gonna be so interesting now, I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result puts City two points behind Arsenal after 35 games each. City are trailing Arsenal\u2019s goal difference by one.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola\u2019s side just need Arsenal to slip up once in their remaining three league matches to have the opportunity to pounce.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal face Burnley and Crystal Palace after West Ham, while City still have Palace, Bournemouth and Aston Villa to play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/2025-26-premier-league-prize-money-table-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League 2025\/26 prize money table predicted<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Doku continued his brilliant form as Manchester City beat Brentford 3-0 at the Etihad to keep their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,793,19,17,98242,2353,5,6795,795,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-477355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-front-page","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jeremy-doku","13":"tag-manchester-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pep-guardiola","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}