{"id":12440,"date":"2026-11-08T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/we-need-fresh-minds-doku-admits-international-break-comes-at-right-time-for-man-city\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T14:15:51","slug":"we-need-fresh-minds-doku-admits-international-break-comes-at-right-time-for-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/we-need-fresh-minds-doku-admits-international-break-comes-at-right-time-for-man-city\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Need Fresh Minds&#8217; &#8211;Doku Admits International Break Comes At Right Time For Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City winger J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku has admitted that the upcoming international break comes at the ideal time for the team to reset following a damaging defeat to Nottingham Forest that further derailed their Premier League title push.<\/p>\n<p>City\u2019s loss on Saturday leaves them trailing league leaders Arsenal by six points. After opening the campaign with seven consecutive victories, Enzo Maresca\u2019s side have now slumped to three straight Premier League defeats for the first time in two years, leaving them with little room for error as Arsenal continue their strong form with a 1\u20130 win over Hull City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/2026-u-17-wwc-flamingos-bag-50000-for-historic-title-win\/\">2026 U-17 WWC: Flamingos Bag $50,000 for Historic Title Win<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the match via the club\u2019s official website, Doku conceded that a poor first-half performance ultimately left City with too steep a hill to climb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst half we were behind 2-0, playing away to a side like this and losing 2-0 is making things difficult for ourselves. We are used to playing every two days. That\u2019s not a reason. If you ask me for the reason for our first half I don\u2019t know. We go behind very early in the game and that changes a lot,\u201d Doku said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"csa1x-widget csbw-odds-card\" aria-label=\"Match odds\" readability=\"-19.2\">\n<p><label class=\"csbw-oddschip\"><span class=\"csbw-oddsbar__label\">Show odds<\/span><button class=\"csbw-oddsswitch\" type=\"button\" role=\"switch\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-label=\"Show odds\" data-csbw-global=\"1\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"csa1x-actions\">\n<details class=\"csa1x-tipster-details csbw-article-tips\">\n<summary class=\"csa1x-tipster-toggle\">Match prediction<\/summary>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe reacted too late. If we had started the game like this it would have been different. In the second-half we played without brakes, we were very offensive and tried to create things. We scored early but a team like this are very dangerous on counterattacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/2026-u-17-wwc-infantino-applauds-flamingos-title-triumph\/\">2026 U-17 WWC: Infantino Applauds Flamingos\u2019 Title Triumph<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, the Belgian international emphasized the need for the squad to clear their heads and refocus before returning to domestic action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be fresh minds, start again and analyse what we can do better and move forward,\u201d Doku added. \u201cThe international break comes at the right moment for us to analyse and come back refreshed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City winger J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku has admitted that the upcoming international break comes at the ideal time for the team to reset following a damaging defeat to Nottingham Forest that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}