Jeremy Doku is adamant in his conviction that Manchester City is the best team in the league and is eager to demonstrate his conviction.

Man City celebrates victory

The Belgian winger shined as the champions returned to winning ways in the Premier League on Saturday with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Brighton at the Etihad Stadium.

Doku assisted Julian Alvarez’s opening goal and was a constant threat down the left as City put the consecutive defeats they suffered before the international series behind them.

Doku, a £55million summer signing from Rennes, said: “The win was important – not only for the group but also for our mindset.

“It was a difficult game but we are a good team and we have to prove that every time, every match we play. Today, we did it.”

Man City appeared to be heading for victory after Alvarez’s seventh goal of the campaign on 7 minutes, followed by Erling Haaland’s miracle strike 12 minutes later.

Doku, who gave former Man City player James Milner a particularly hot time, almost scored twice if the Brighton goalkeeper did not make an excellent save.

Brighton recovered after the break and Ansu Fati gave them hope with a reply in the 73rd minute.

City then had to fend off after Manuel Akanji was sent off for a second yellow card in stoppage time, meaning he missed next weekend’s Manchester derby.

Towards the end of the game, Brighton made things difficult for Manchester City.

Doku stated that although some matches, such as this one, are challenging, the team would continue to compete. In the end, the score was 10-11, but we demonstrated that our spirits were strong throughout the game.

Following the string of challenging outcomes that we have had over the past few weeks, we are relieved and thrilled with this result. It’s incredibly crucial to our mental health, and I really hope we can keep going like this.

Danny Welbeck and Solly March both went down with injuries, further complicating the result for Brighton. They joined an already lengthy list of casualties that included Julio Enciso, Jakub Moder, Pervis Estupinan, and Tariq Lamptey. The two joined an already long list of casualties that included Julio Enciso.

However, despite being outplayed in the first half, the away team has every reason to believe that they can make a comeback in the second. “There are two halves to the game,” the goalkeeper, Jason Steele, stated. We didn’t play very well in the first half, certainly not well enough for our level of competition.

“I believe that our true character was revealed in the second half of the game. We had more guts than before, and our improved pressing made a significant difference.

Erling Haaland was able to score a magnificent goal.

We had a good opportunity to get a point in the second half, but in the end we were unable to do so, and we exited the game feeling unhappy.

However, with the way we played in the second half, we at least showed ourselves off a little bit more.