Was Cristiano RonaldoâÂÂs free-kick the best ever? Maybe. But how about this one from a game between Almeria and Valladolid?
And yet the best set-play so far this season in Spain is in fact not a free-kick at all, but a kick-off â the fastest ever La Liga goal. No blind hoof, this, itâÂÂs entirely deliberate. In fact, Valladolid had tried it once before.
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