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Maxi-mum impact

EVENING STANDARD
For all the trickery of Ronaldinho, the pace of Samuel Eto'o and the art of Deco it took the intervention of an unheralded Argentine to win this match for Barcelona.
When Maxi Lopez arrived at the Nou Camp last month, a £4million signing from River Plate, he was derided as an ungainly lump not fit to lace the boots of his more illustrious team-mates.
Not any more. Less than 40 minutes into his Barcelona career, the 20-year-old has proved his credentials, a lumpen proletarian standing tall at the heart of a footballing aristocracy.
Lopez's height - he's 6ft 3in - is one of his main assets but elevation is by no means his only virtue.
In the 26 minutes he was on the pitch last night the Argentina youth international displayed a touch, poise and finishing ability that will not cause him embarrassment at the Nou Camp. And no one should doubt his courage.
When Frank Rijkaard sent him on for his Champions League debut, replacing the strangely subdued Ludovic Giuly, Lopez's entire experience of football outside of South America comprised a 12-minute appearance as a substitute in a 2-0 home defeat by Atletico Madrid.
But within three minutes last night he turned the game. With Ronaldinho making a rare break down the left, Lopez found his way to the edge of the penalty area, collecting the ball from the Brazilian via Eto'o and produced a perfectlyplacedright-foot finish to cause that most rare of occurences, Petr Cech retrieving the ball from the back of his net.
Lopez may not be a keen student of European goalkeepers but realises that this opening to a new stage in his career is the stuff that dreams are made of.
He said: "I'm very happy because it was my first game in the Champions League and I've dreamed about this moment, scoring on my European debut.
"Before I went on the pitch I was very calm and confident I could help
Barcelona achieve a victory.
"The game in London will be very difficult but we have given ourselves a good chance with this victory."
Lopez may have been calm before he came on but such serenity soon disappeared as he celebrated his goal, flapping his arms wildly like a devotee of The Birdie Song.
While it would be nice to think he was paying tribute to The Tweets' unforgettable contribution to British popular culture, Lopez's actions were in fact for the benefit of his former team-mates at River Plate, whose mascot is a chicken. Either that or he's developed an unfathom-
able liking for Bradford City's Bantam.
While it's touching to discover that Lopez has not forgotten his roots the question of how he came to leave Buenos Aires is far from clear.
His goal-scoring record for River Plate was modest to say the least,
having yielded just 13 goals since he made his debut as a 17-year-old four seasons ago, but he has had no shortage of admirers.
A match-winning performance in the 'gran classico' against Boca Juniors certainly helped people to sit up and take notice.
Ajax gave him a trial last season before sending him back to Argentina but a chance meeting with an agent changed the course of his future.
When Rijkaard was searching for a replacement for the injured Henrik Larsson towards the end of last year his brother, Herman Rijkaard, recommended a young Argentine he had seen play in a trial match in Amsterdam. Lopez has not looked back.
Although still raw and in need of sharpening his goal- scoring instincts, Lopez brings to the Nou Camp something Barcelona had previously been missing, a physical presence to turn their possession into points.
For all their undoubted pretty football, Barca sometimes suffer from a lack of penetration, not helped by the fact that their first-choice front three resemble refugees from a dwarf colony.
With his long, blond hair and hair band, Lopez looks like a cross between Diego Forlan and a Def Leppard roadie but already commands more respect than either.
With Barcelona controlling possession but struggling to capitalise on their one-man advantage, his impact against Chelsea was extraordinary, turning defenders, holding the ball up and creating space for Ronaldinho and Eto'o to exploit in the channels.
After scoring Barcelona's equaliser three minutes into his European debut he took a further four minutes to craft the winner, shooting across the face of goal before Eto'o beat Ricardo Carvalho to the ball to fire past Cech.
Although there was a hint of fortune in the fact that a misplaced shot found a team-mate, it was no more than he deserved for his direct approach.
For all Jose Mourinho's tactical acumen, it's reassuring to discover that those who dare occassionally win.
Lopez had a further opportunity to extend Barcelona's lead before the end, bringing a good save out of Cech from a Deco corner, but his work had already been done. That £4m is looking like money well spent.