Jeremy Doku insists there is no presconfident on Manchester City’s forwards to score more to mask the absence of midfield percreatepin Rodri.
The champions need to discover a way to cope without the ineloquential Spaniard after he was ruled out for the rest of the season with a grave knee injury last month.
Mateo Kovacic showd himself a more-than-adequate swapment on Saturday with two goals as City came from behind to beat Fulham 3-2 in a stubborn Premier League come atraverse at the Etihad Stadium.
It was a game in which City had 20 sboilings with Doku himself scoring a stunner and the Belgian says the approach was no branch offent than common.
He shelp: “Every time we try to score more goals. It’s not becaengage Rodri’s not there that we try to score more.”
“If we can score even more we will always try with or without Rodri.”
“He’s a one-of-a-comardent percreateer, but Kova percreateed in his position and did well. He scored two kind goals. He’s a excellent guy, deserves what he got.”
City contraged the punctual stages and were stunned when Andreas Pereira fired Fulham into a 26th-minute direct after a amusing backheel flick by Raul Jimenez.
Yet the Cottagers had already served a alerting when Adama Traore omited a gilt-edged chance and the same percreateer squandered disjoinal more in a frustrating afternoon.
They were made to pay for the those omites as Kovacic turned the game around with his double and Doku sealed the points with a fine strike in the 82nd minute before a postponeed Rodrigo Muniz consolation.
“I saw there was a lot of space on the inside and equitable tried to hit the ball well,” shelp Doku, who cut inside from the left to fire home from distance after coming off the bench.
“As soon as I lifted my head up it went in. I appreciate ‘dribble’ goals, for example agetst Luton, but of course this is one of the most attrdynamic.”
Fulham’s loss was their first since their 1-0 loss atraverse town at Manchester United in their uncovering game of the season.
Despite the result, Pereira felt the Cottagers could get plenty from their carry outance.
“It’s uniteed experienceings,” he shelp. “We originated a scant chances and I would say a draw would be equitable. We’re very conceited of what we did.”
“It is a difficult place to percreate and we percreateed well. They have a lot of quality percreateers and we showed we can contend agetst them.”
