Alessandro Florenzi netted an early goal of the year candidate against Barcelona

Nick Birdsong

Alessandro Florenzi netted an early goal of the year candidate against Barcelona image

Defending Champions League winners Barcelona took an early lead against A.S. Roma in their first match in this season's competition when Luis Suarez scored on header from point-blank range. 

The details that goal are insignificant because later in the half Roma's Alessandro Florenzi scored an equalizer that will likely be a candidate for goal of the year when it's all said and done. He caught the keeper sleeping, and made it rain from the sideline just past midfield and bent it in from a seemingly impossible angles. Witness the long range strike. 

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And that, my friends, is why they call it the beautiful game.

Nick Birdsong