JAMIE CARRAGHER AND Gary Neville picked their Premier League teams of the decade on last night’s edition of Monday Night Football.
The pair went with the exact same goalkeeper and back four, with David de Gea, Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany, Virgil van Dijk and Cesar Azpilicueta all making the cut.
There was agreement too further forward, with Yaya Toure, David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Eden Hazard making both pundits’ teams.
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Elsewhere, Harry Kane and Luis Suarez featured on Neville’s team, while N’Golo Kante and Gareth Bale made it onto Carragher’s XI.
“How do we wonder how he failed at Valencia when he’s got Eden Hazard in midfield?” Carragher joked.
“Kante is a World Cup winner, he’d get in a world XI possibly now. He won the league at Leicester, then came to Chelsea and won the league and was probably the best player in both years. He’s got to go in there.
“The one who I was very close to putting in was Kevin de Bruyne. I think if he hadn’t got injured a year or so ago and had another 12 months of real quality he maybe would have pushed me with Yaya Toure.”
On the selection of Bale, Carragher added: ”The reason I went for Bale is because he wasn’t in the league for a long time across the full decade, but he won PFA Player of the Year twice and Young Player of the Year.
“It’s a big thing to win PFA Player of the Year. To do it twice in three years is unbelievable, and it then got him the move [to Real Madrid] for the world-record fee.
“I think what he did in those three or four years, being the best player in the league for two out of three years, is something special.”
On the three-man forward line, former Man United player Neville said: ”I love Aguero to bits and that’s why I put him in. But ultimately if you were telling me to pick a front two, I would want Kane and Suarez. Suarez is a phenomenon as a player, he’s absolutely unbelievable.”
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JAMIE CARRAGHER AND Gary Neville picked their Premier League teams of the decade on last night’s edition of Monday Night Football.
The pair went with the exact same goalkeeper and back four, with David de Gea, Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany, Virgil van Dijk and Cesar Azpilicueta all making the cut.
There was agreement too further forward, with Yaya Toure, David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Eden Hazard making both pundits’ teams.
Elsewhere, Harry Kane and Luis Suarez featured on Neville’s team, while N’Golo Kante and Gareth Bale made it onto Carragher’s XI.
“How do we wonder how he failed at Valencia when he’s got Eden Hazard in midfield?” Carragher joked.
“Kante is a World Cup winner, he’d get in a world XI possibly now. He won the league at Leicester, then came to Chelsea and won the league and was probably the best player in both years. He’s got to go in there.
“The one who I was very close to putting in was Kevin de Bruyne. I think if he hadn’t got injured a year or so ago and had another 12 months of real quality he maybe would have pushed me with Yaya Toure.”
On the selection of Bale, Carragher added: ”The reason I went for Bale is because he wasn’t in the league for a long time across the full decade, but he won PFA Player of the Year twice and Young Player of the Year.
“It’s a big thing to win PFA Player of the Year. To do it twice in three years is unbelievable, and it then got him the move [to Real Madrid] for the world-record fee.
“I think what he did in those three or four years, being the best player in the league for two out of three years, is something special.”
On the three-man forward line, former Man United player Neville said: ”I love Aguero to bits and that’s why I put him in. But ultimately if you were telling me to pick a front two, I would want Kane and Suarez. Suarez is a phenomenon as a player, he’s absolutely unbelievable.”
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