Pep Guardiola believes Jeremy Doku will miss Manchester City’s game against Tottenham Hotspur this weekend, after he was forced out of Wednesday’s match against Galatasaray with an injury.
Jeremy Doku made an excellent start to Manchester City’s final Champions League League Phase game on Wednesday, setting up both of his team’s goals against Galatasaray.
But after just 37 minutes, Doku limped out of the contest with an injury.
Speaking after the game, Pep Guardiola confirmed that Doku was “injured”, adding that the problem was “a calf, [he] felt something”.
Guardiola added: “It’s a big miss. Jeremy is such an important player for many reasons. The creativity in the final third. But yeah, we’ll see.”
When asked whether Doku would miss City’s trip away to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, the City boss responded: “I think so.”
Doku has already struggled with muscle injuries in recent months, missing three Premier League games and one League Cup game in December.
This would be very poor timing for another similar setback, with City playing Spurs (A), Newcastle (H – League Cup semi-final), and Liverpool (A) in their next three matches.
Doku didn’t make many friends in Arsenal circles ahead of the Galatasaray game, responding to a question about the Gunners’ defeat to Manchester United by laughing and saying: “Obviously if they lose, it’s better for us for sure.”
But the winger did add: “I saw that they lost, but I knew there are a lot of games in this competition. And I knew that United, we lost against them. There are a lot of games and we just need to focus on ourselves.”