The Portuguese, as a defender, has scored three goals in two months this season between Barça and the Portuguese team
He is on his way to surpassing numbers and making the current one his best performing year
Joao Cancelo is sweet in front of goal in this first stretch of the season. The Portuguese scored again yesterday in the victory of the team coached by Robert Martínez against Bosnia. It is Cancelo’s third goal so far this seasona figure that is not bad at all for a defender, although the Blaugrana has a clear offensive vocation.
In addition to the goal against Bosnia, Cancelo has already scored two goals for Barça. He debuted with his new shirt against Betis in Montjuïc and repeated it in the following League match against Celta, scoring the winning goal for Xavi Hernández’s team in the last minute and culminating a magical comeback.
Cancelo has three goals in just two months of the course and is on track for this season to be his best scoring season since he became a professional. In fact, since then, in the 14/15 season, he has only scored more than three goals in the same year on four occasions.. Last year he scored four goals: two with City, one with Bayern and another with the Portuguese national team, his best seasons on goal being the 21/22 and 20/21 seasons, with five goals each. In both, he scored three goals with City and two with his country’s team.
Joao Cancelo, celebrating his goal against Bosnia
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The fourth season with more than three goals is 16/17, when he was a Valencia player. He scored one goal with the Mestalla team and three with the Portuguese team.
The system favors you
Cancelo is in a position to surpass all of these numbers in his first season with Barça, taking into account that Xavi’s system favors him, because for many minutes, in the offensive phase, he stops being a defender and becomes an offensive midfielder who moves close to the rival area. And his good shooting and also his good arrival favor him in this sense.
Cancelo has scored a total of 27 goals in his professional career, which are distributed as follows: Portugal (9), Manchester City (9), Valencia (4), Barça (2), Bayern (1), Inter (1 ) and Juventus (1).