{"id":230338,"date":"2025-09-16T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230338\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:16:09","slug":"phil-foden-struggles-with-criticism-admits-manchester-city-teammate-doku-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230338\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Foden \u2018struggles with criticism\u2019, admits Manchester City teammate Doku | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku has stated that Phil Foden can \u201cstruggle when people criticise\u201d him and backed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/manchestercity\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> forward to return to his best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Foden scored City\u2019s opener in Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/sep\/14\/manchester-city-manchester-united-premier-league-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-0 derby win<\/a> over Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium. Last season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/may\/21\/phil-foden-admits-to-facing-challenges-off-the-pitch-mentally-this-season-manchester-city\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he struggled<\/a> owing to injury and off-field issues, after the finest campaign of his career in which he scored 19 Premier League goals and was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2024\/apr\/12\/how-phil-foden-has-evolved-to-become-manchester-city-outstanding-player\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">driving force<\/a> in City\u2019s fourth consecutive title, earning the Professional Footballers\u2019 Association and Football Writers\u2019 Association men\u2019s player of the year awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Doku admitted Foden can be affected by criticism. \u201cPhil is a lovely guy,\u201d he said. \u201cI know sometimes he struggles when people criticise him. Football is not easy and he showed [against United] again that talent-wise you cannot say a word about him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI\u2019m very happy for him, I know his qualities and I know that he will show that to everyone. I have no doubt about him. I\u2019m very happy for him. He deserves it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Doku was one of City\u2019s standout performers against United, creating goals for Foden and Erling Haaland. He said his faith was a factor in the display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cToday was for me already a victory,\u201d he said post-match. \u201cWhy? Because I knew that after the game today I\u2019m going to baptise myself; I\u2019m going to be baptised. Maybe that\u2019s why I felt like I was pushed today. That\u2019s why I\u2019m very happy with the performance as well. As a Christian, when you get baptised, your old nature, your old sinful nature, dies and you start living with God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku has stated that Phil Foden can \u201cstruggle when people criticise\u201d him and backed the Manchester City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-230338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115211808821030279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}