Jeremy Doku cites Raheem Sterling as case study for Manchester City goalscoring target | OneFootball

Manchester City forward Jeremy Doku has pointed to Raheem Sterling’s goals during his time at the club to explain his recent improvement in the final third.

The 23-year-old proved instrumental for Pep Guardiola‘s side once again as he opened the scoring in City’s 3-0 win over Brentford on Saturday evening with a brilliant curled effort into the top right corner on the hour mark.

Doku netted a sensational brace to help salvage a 3-3 draw for City against Everton earlier this week, scoring an outrageous 90+7th minute leveller from distance as the Blues stayed put in the title race despite dropping two valuable points.

Erling Haaland and Omar Marmoush made it two and three respectively against Brentford on Saturday as City moved to two points adrift of Premier League leaders Arsenal, who face West Ham at the London Stadium on Sunday evening.

Jeremy Doku: I want to score more goals like Raheem Sterling

In an honest breakdown of the nature of his goals after Saturday’s win in conversation with Sky Sports, Doku said: “There is one thing; when I look at my goals, all the goals this season, I don’t see one tap-in.

“And when I look at, for example, Raheem Sterling and his seasons at Manchester City, all the tap-ins that he scored, at least five, six, seven a season.

“When I look at my goals, it’s all top goals, don’t get me wrong – but I want to score also those goals where I just tap-in, second post, run in and tap-in – and it just adds more goals to my account. That’s really the thing that I need to work on.

“These goals will come, they’ll be there every time but if I add easy goals, you have to be there – that’s the aspect I want to work on. To not only stay on the side and do my actions and score those types of goals, but also the easy tap-ins.”

Doku’s Man City season so far in numbers

Doku has been arguably Manchester City’s best attacker alongside Haaland this term as his beautiful goal against Keith Andrews‘ men taking him to eight goals in 42 appearances in all competitions this term, with 14 assists also to his name.

The Belgium international has been a regular starter for Guardiola since the autumn of 2025 and will be monumental for City in their final three Premier League games – either side of next weekend’s FA Cup final against Chelsea at Wembley.

In his third season at the Etihad Stadium since joining from Rennes in 2023, Doku has truly established himself as one of the best wingers in England and he will be looking to carry his current form into the summer across the Atlantic for his nation at the FIFA World Cup.