Despite Juventus’ recent elimination from the Champions League, Colombian winger Juan Guillermo Cuadrado showed that he walks at a high level despite being absent for a few days due to injury. He returned and was a major protagonist in the Italian 3-2 victory over Porto, where he was reported with an assist.
Although Turin did not succeed in winning the series to advance to the quarterfinals, the Colombian left pleasant sensations and is already part of a list of “must-haves” in the midst of a storm that broke out after removal. Several exits are approaching, but Quadrat’s is not.
However there is an interesting fact that left the week that is about to end. Juan Guillermo reached 14 assists in the season that is underway, the most recent was against Porto for the partial 2-1, so much so that Federico Chiesa scored. Quadrat was decisive with this pass and a couple more assists that did not end in goal; he also crashed a shot into the post.
With this figure, the native of Necoclí (Antioquia) is very close to reaching the record of James Rodríguez, who in his best season in Europe (2014/15) got 18 assists with the shirt of Real Madrid, this adding all the official competencies in Europe.
Quadrat already surpassed his best personal record since 2013/14 when he played for Fiorentina, where in addition to putting 11 assists he scored 15 goals. In the 2016/17 campaign he had 10 assists with Juve, a team he reached in 2015 after playing in the Premier League with Chelsea.
According to the Transfermarkt record, the Colombian has 14 assists in 27 games (for all competitions) and contributes with an assist every 149 minutes, on average, as he has been on the court 2,088 minutes. The funny thing is that this is the first season in which he has not scored a goal since his arrival at Juventus. In 2017/18 he scored five and last season he was reported with three.
The truth is that with the absence of James Rodriguez at Everton, who according to coach Carlo Ancelotti will return until April while recovering from his physical discomfort, Quadrat will have a good chance to continue to improve his record and why not , surpass that of the ’10 ‘. For the first time, this Sunday those from Turin will visit Cagliari for Serie A and the Colombian is one of those called up by Andrea Pirlo. He will surely be a starter.