It was audacious, it was nonchalant and, in the words of Giles Barnes himself, it was quite simply "perfect".

Barnes appeared not to be paying attention when he turned his back on goal after the Houston Dynamo had a throw-in deep into Seattle territory late in the first half of Sunday's MLS encounter.

Hearing the Dynamo fans raise their voices, Barnes looked up to see the ball suddenly coming his away.

Completely unmarked, the attacking midfielder casually chipped the ball over Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei with a first-time effort from 15 yards and wheeled away, cool as you like, as if he had planned it all along.