Manchester United players dominate this XI of the best World Cup stars to hail from the Premier League, while Manchester City draw a blank…
GK: Alisson (Liverpool, Brazil)
Alisson and Jordan Pickford have the highest save percentage (83.3%) of any goalkeeper left in the tournament apart from Andries Noppert (88.2%) but the Liverpool star has made a couple of particularly memorable stops, made all the more difficult by barely being involved in the four games Brazil have played so far.
RB: Diogo Dalot (Manchester United, Portugal)
Joao Cancelo could easily be in this side but Diogo Dalot replaced him for Portugal against Switzerland and the Manchester City star may struggle to regain his place. Dalot, and Raphael Guerreiro on the opposite flank, caused the Swiss all sorts of problems.
CB: Harry Maguire (Manchester United, Portugal)
Yes, he’s got a big head, but he’s got even bigger bottle. To be so roundly criticised by almost everyone and perform so well on the world stage is a great credit to him and Gareth Southgate.
He’s done the old-fashioned defending really well but has also had the minerals to dribble past the press and ping pin-point diagonals.
CB: Thiago Silva (Chelsea, Brazil)
People bang on about how great it would be for Lionel Messi to lift the World Cup, but it would also be quite the moment if this guy did it. His absence for Brazil against Germany in 2014 cost them seven goals and there appears to be no difference to his football now compared to then, with that same swagger and reading of the game clear for all to see. And what about that pass for Richarlison? Mercy me.
LB: Nayef Aguerd (West Ham, Morocco)
‘Ohhh, that’s the guy we spent £30m on in the summer,’ chorused the West Ham fans, who may have missed Aguerd’s one Premier League appearance before he flew off to Qatar. They will be mightily impressed by the 26-year-old, who along with Romain Saiss, was absurdly good in the last 16-clash against Spain. Not a left-back, but he’s played there six times in his career, so shut up.
CM: Casemiro (Manchester United, Brazil)
‘”Over the hill”, they said, “not as good as Declan Rice”, they said, “can’t pass it”, they said’, said the people who like to make up derogatory things people said about Casemiro before he arrived in the Premier League. He’s proven no critics wrong at this World Cup because he had no critics, or at least no critics worth listening to.
AM: Bruno Fernandes (Manchester…
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