United and City’s best XIs?

We challenged Matt Le Tissier to pick Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola’s best XIs ahead of Manchester United’s EFL Cup derby with Manchester City, live on Sky Sports.

Both managers’ selections have come under scrutiny after underwhelming respective runs, with United boasting just one victory in six in the league and City winless in five in all competitions.

Mourinho and Guardiola are expected to make changes for Wednesday’s final-16 tie, but given a full complement, who would Le Tiss, the Soccer Saturday pundit, field from the off? Should Wayne Rooney be playing from the start? Is Raheem Sterling a shoo-in? Read on for his choices and then have your say…

Manchester United

The first pick is an easy one. David de Gea has won their Player of the Year for the past three seasons and is once again probably looking their best player.

It’s a bit of a strange one to pick Antonio Valencia next because he’s not really a right-back, but the rest aren’t much cop; then I’d go for Luke Shaw on the left and Chris Smalling and Eric Bailly – were he fit – centrally.

Then Morgan Schneiderlin gets in. I know he’s been injured, but when he’s fit, he gets around the pitch better than most in that area. He also wins it back and passes well. When he was at Southampton, he was one of the best in the Premier League in that …

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