The Belgian winger threatened the Spanish giants’ defence in the opening stages, but Federico Valverde struck three times in the space of 22 minutes as the home side took total control.
After picking up on Doku’s danger on the wing, Real Madrid clamped down on him to stop him from finding space.
The 3-0 defeat sees us head back to the Etihad Stadium with a hefty margin to redeem to make it into the quarter-finals but the forward said that City can still find a way back into the tie.
“Against teams like Real Madrid you know that as soon as you lose the ball that they’re just waiting to play a counter attack and then they score,” Doku said.
“They scored three goals and then it’s difficult to come back because they played very defensively, but I feel like if we scored the first chances that we had it’s a different game.
“[Donnarumma’s save] helped us massively, we’re still confident.
“Obviously we have a game against West Ham before, but we trust our qualities and we know that at the Etihad it’s also a different game.
“We’ll need our fans to help us and if they can score three goals why can’t we?”
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