We select five efforts for you to watch ahead of the latest episode of the Goal Show

Djimi Traore won last week’s GOTW with his stunning long range effort for the Seattle Sounders against Tigres in the Concacaf Champions League.

But now for this week’s contenders, and naturally there’s an international theme to our top five.

The first goal comes from German midfielder Thomas Broich. The former Borussia Monchengladbach man on target for Brisbane Roar in the Australian A-League.

Option two is Liverpool and Uruguay star Luis Suarez, with this fantastic volley during their World Cup qualifier against Paraguay.
 
Following in Traore’s footsteps we have another defender, as Denmark’s Niki Zimling makes the grade with his effort against the Czech Republic.
 
Option four provides our second Premier League representative, with Tottenham’s Gylfi Sigurdsson making his GOTW debut. The Iceland international scored twice at the weekend, but his free-kick against Slovenia was the pick of the bunch.

Finally, Tomer Hemed’s fine turn and volley for Israel against Portugal is goal five. Small consolation having been denied a famous victory on Friday.

The Finland defender enjoyed a trophy-laden spell with the Reds between 1999 and 2009 before moving to German Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen, who he is now co-managing

Liverpool legend Sami Hyypia has described signing for the Merseyside club as the greatest moment of his highly successful career.

The defender, who has since become co-manager at German side Bayer Leverkusen, made 464 appearances for the Reds after joining from Dutch club Willem II in 1999.

Hyypia had a highly successful spell at Anfield, winning a host of European and domestic honours, before departing the club in 2009 for a new challenge in a player-coach role at Leverkusen.

“The day I signed my contract with Liverpool, that’s one day I will never forget because Liverpool was my favourite team when I was younger and it was a dream come true,” he told the BBC.

“I was there a long time and I had to leave friends there – it was a bit emotional.

“Now I think of my Liverpool career with joy, especially the fans – I always had a good relationship with Liverpool fans. I guess they saw I always tried my best on the pitch.

“I made mistakes as well and hopefully they forgive me for those mistakes and hopefully I did more good things than mistakes.”

Hyypia retired from the game in 2011, but in May 2012 was handed the reins at Leverkusen alongside Sascha Lewandowski after a successful caretaker spell.

The pair have since guided the club to third place in the Bundesliga behind current leaders Bayern Munich and defending champions Borussia Dortmund, but Hyypia has admitted to finding management more difficult.

“As a player it’s quite easy – this job is much more difficult,” he added. “It’s quite funny being on the other side now to see how much work you have to do with the team, outside of the team, and all the planning for the season, for pre-season, and for every training session.

“As a player you show up half an hour before training and somebody tells you what to do. Then you go to the shower and go home.”

Hyypia played under Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez at Liverpool and revealed that it was the latter who taught him most as a coach.

“I haven’t had a lot of managers and coaches in my career but from every one I tried to take the positive things,” he said. “The negative things, I don’t want to bring them into my coaching.

“If we are talking about football tactically, maybe I learned the most from Benitez. Tactically he was good and maybe I’d say I’ve learned the most from him.”

The Reds’ January signing has settled well on Merseyside and appreciates the opportunity that his new manager has given him to show what he can do in his favoured position

Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge has expressed his gratitude to manager Brendan Rodgers for offering him a stage on which he can flourish.

The former Manchester City and Chelsea forward moved to Merseyside in January and believes that he now has the chance to develop to his full potential.

He told the Reds’ official website: “I’m very grateful – very grateful to the manager for giving me an opportunity.

“I was at Man City before Chelsea and everything was fine there, in fairness. I didn’t have any problems, everything worked out, but I chose to leave because I didn’t feel it was the best place for me to further my career.

“I moved on to Chelsea and had success. We won trophies and I have medals but, in terms of my own individual ambitions, I didn’t get to fulfil them.

“Hopefully here, now I’m at a club that believes in me with a manager who believes in me, I can give the fans something to smile about.

“I thank the manager for giving me the opportunity to get where I am today. My driving force isn’t to prove people wrong. I am just trying to fulfil the talent that God gave me.”

The 23-year-old had often been deployed on the flanks at his previous clubs but always hankered for a central striking role. Rodgers has brought him in from the wing to spearhead the Liverpool attack in tandem with leading scorer Luis Suarez and the partnership has shown considerable early promise.

“I don’t feel any pressures about coming here and playing up front because I’ve been doing that since I was six years old. To me, it’s not a pressure,” Sturridge insisted.

“What the manager said to me when I first joined is that ‘words don’t describe it, you have to be here and be a part of it to understand’. When I joined I immediately realised what he meant.

“I don’t think I could tell someone – you just have to be here and a part of it to understand the feeling.

“I’ve enjoyed every minute since I joined the club. It’s been a great time here for me and I’m enjoying part of the future here.

“I’ve been coming in, working hard, getting on with my team-mates and the staff and everyone has made me feel really welcome. I can’t complain! I feel like this is my home now. I don’t have any worries about the future.”