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£55m Man City attacker compared to Eden Hazard by the media after his latest international display

A handful of Manchester City attackers are representing their countries as the second international break of the 2024-25 campaign prepares to draw to a close.

Rico Lewis, Jack Grealish, John Stones, Phil Foden and Kyle Walker are part of Lee Carsley’s England squad, while Bernardo Silva and Ruben Dias feature▨d for P🅰ortugal in their 3-1 win against Poland.

The likes of Manuel Akanji, Mat🐼eo Kovacic, Josko Gvardiol and Erling Haaland also featured for their respective countries, with the latter finding himse🦩lf on the wrong end of a battering as Norway lost 5-1 to Austria.

However, it is another Manchester City man who has made a massive impression, with Jeremy Doku earning rave reviews for his performance for Belgium🍬 against France.

Manchester City’s Jeremy Doku likened to Chelsea legend Eden Hazard

Photo by Rene Nijhuis/MB Media/Getty Images
Photo by Rene Nijhuis/MB Media/Getty Images

Belgium lost 2-1 at home as Randal Kolo Muani’s brace spearheaded France to a 2-1 win, but Doku did hi🍷s reputation no harm wi🔴th an electric display on the wings.

Starting alongside Leandro Trossard and Lois Openda in attack, the explosive 🦋winger was a constant threat as he gave France full-back Lucas Digne a run for his mon💫ey.

rated his performance 8/10 and opined that he showed flashes of Eden Hazard, who is w♚idely regarded as the greatest Belgian foot♓baller in history.

“Made the Heysel look like his playground like Edﷺen Hazard used to do. Simply impressive how he gave Digne a horror night, especially before the break.

“The only downside: that he 🍬let Digne run too often – 🍨as with the disallowed 1-2 and the real 1-2.”

Doku’s stats vs France

Doku made three key passes and completed a staggering six dribbles, a stat which shows why he drew comparisons with Hazard as the Chelsea icon✃ was෴ known for running rings around opposition defenders.

He also completed two crosses and one long ball as he finished the ga🍸me with 62 touches and a pass accuracy of 77% (23/30 passes completed).

Doku earned himself a🐻 rating of 7 – which doesn’t really set the world alight – but he is one of few Belgium players who impressed in what turned out to be a disappointing home defeat for them.

Signed for from Rennes last summer, the Belgian attacker is slowly starting to find more ꩵconsistency and will look to carry on his rich vein of form thi𝓡s season.