Jeremy Doku scored his first goal of the 2025-26 season as Manchester City got the better of 10-man Napoli with a 2-0 win in their UEFA Champions League opener on Thursday, Afrosport reports.
The 23-year-old Belgian winger of Ghanaian heritage registered his first goal involvement of the season with two assists for Erling Haaland and Phil Foden in the 3-0 derby win over Manchester United in the Premier League on Sunday.
It was however not a walk in the park against Napoli, who despite being down to 10 men when captain Giovanni Di Lorenzo was given a straight red card in the 21st minute for rough challenge on Haaland, showed a lot of grit and resilience in containing City’s threat.
This also included sacrificing new sighing Kevin de Bruyne in his reunion with his former employers due to the red card and was replaced by Uruguayan centre-back Miguel Oliveira.
The reigning Italian Serie A champions were finally broken in the 56th minute as Haaland connected with a Foden to head the ball past goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic for his 50th Champions League goal.
Nine minutes later, new signing Tijjani Reijnders found Doku who evaded some Napoli defenders and slammed the ball into the bottom right corner of the net.
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— Manchester City (@ManCity) September 18, 2025
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In one of the other Champions League games on Wednesday, Sporting Lisbon thumped debutants Kairat Almaty of Kazakhstan 4-1. Morten Hjulmand missed a penalty in the 21st minute but Sporting pushed on with a brace from Trincao and solo goals from Alisson Santos and Geovany Quenda while Edmilson Santos scored the consolation goal for Kairat in the 86th minute.
