Barca wonderkid Guiu's been on some journey from signing at 7 to scoring winner

Surprised but not surprised, was how Barcelona staff reacted to Marc Guiu taking just 33 seconds to score his first goal for the first team.

The 17-year-old who will turn 18 on January 6 next year has been training regularly with the first team since Robert Lewandowski picked up an ankle injury and he has shown everyone at the club what he is capable of.

He is not the typical Barcelona number nine who will drop deep and run the channels, his strength is not combining with midfielders. He is all about being on the shoulder of the last defender and waiting for the right pass to come and that is what happened on Sunday night.

He timed his run brilliantly to stay onside and then with only one touch to get the ball out of his feet he opened his body and sent it past Spain’s number one goalkeeper Unai Simon. Guiu followed off his match-winning display against Athletic Bilbao by making his Champions League debut on Wednesday.

The teenager is a more traditional number nine than Barcelona are used to producing and his goalscoring exploits with the under-18s have fast-tracked him to the club’s B-team which is why Xavi turned to him when he lost Lewandowski.

The Barcelona coach promised him he would get a chance. Even Barcelona’s blue-sky thinking manager could not have imagined it would come so soon and he would take it so well.

Guiu arrived at the club in 2013 from one of Barcelona’s local youth feeder clubs in his home town of Sant Celoni about an hour’s drive north east of the city of Barcelona. Aged seven he already stood out and progress has been steady since then.

In February of this year the club gave him his first professional contract and he played in a pre-season game against Andres Iniesta’s former team Vissel Kobe.

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