The Champions league season is only one match day old, but it will be tough for anyone to better Alessandro Florenzi's eye-popping strike that gave Roma a 1-1 draw with defending champion Barcelona on Wednesday.
Florenzi launched an audacious 60-yard (meter) lob from near the sideline and watched it sail over Barcelona goalkeeper Andre-Marc ter Stegen to cancel out luis Suarez's opening goal.
Bayer leverkusen hammered BATE Borisov 4-1 in the night's other Group E match. Arsenal slumped to a 2-1 loss at Dinamo Zagreb in a match it finished with 10 men, while its Group F rival Bayern Munich needed second-half goals to beat hosts Olympiakos 3-0. Here is a closer look at each match
Group E
After Suarez headed in Ivan Rakitic's pass in the 21st, Florenzi's memorable equalizer in a 1-1 draw came just after the half-hour mark.
Two strides after dribbling past the halfway line on the right flank, Florenzi saw Ter Stegen far out of his goal and let loose a shot from more than 60 meters (yards) over the German's head that went in off the post.
In Germany, Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez scored his first goal for leverkusen as it comfortably beat BATE 4-1.
Admir Mehmedi opened the scoring with the outside of his boot in the fourth, nine minutes before Serbian defender Nemanja Milunovic drew the visitors level with a deflected header.
GROUP G
Chelsea set aside its troubles in the Premier league with an easy 4-0 win in Europe. Willian gave Chelsea the lead in the 15th, his free kick from the left looping past his teammates in the penalty area and beyond the reach of goalkeeper Pedrag Rajkovic.
Oscar doubled the advantage on the stroke of halftime from the penalty spot after Diego Costa was fouled.
GROUP F
While london rival Chelsea got a much-needed win, Arsenal made a dismal start to its European campaign with a 2-1 defeat in Zagreb.
A goal by Josip Pivaric in the 24th and a sending-off for Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud after a second yellow card in the 40th swung the game Dinamo's way.
Chilean forward Junior Fernandes headed Dinamo's second goal from a corner in the 58th. In Greece, Thomas Mueller scored twice and substitute Mario Goetze added another for Bayern as Olympiakos fell apart late in a 3-0 win for the visitors that was marred by scuffles in the stands before kickoff.
GROUP H
Hulk scored twice before Axel Witsel got the winner as Zenit beat Valencia 3-2 in a thriller.
Hulk drove in his first goal on the run in the ninth, and bettered that with a ferocious drive from outside the area to stun Mestalla Stadium three minutes before halftime. Valencia responded after the restart and Joao Cancelo was helped by Yuri lodygin's poor goalkeeping to pull one back before Gomes briefly equalized at 2-2.