Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher select world teams of the year after FIFA’s

It’s not often Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher find common ground on their football opinions but there was plenty of overlap when the TV pundits discussed their team of the year on Friday night.

There was much debate sparked this week when FIFA announced a bizarre team of the year at ‘The Best’ awards which was heavily geared towards forwards players in a curious 3-3-4 formation.

Now, following a fan vote on an EA Sports best XI, Neville and Carragher have revealed their personal choices based on a 4-3-3 formation – with six players featuring in both line-ups.

Mo Salah (left) and Kylian Mbappe feature in Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher’s team of 2021

Neville (centre) and Carragher (right) though had disagreements over five positions

The ever presents in both line-ups feature many stars who helped steer Italy to Euro 2020 glory last summer including Gianluigi Donnarumma in goal.

Both also agreed on the left side of the defence which featured veteran centre-back Giorgio Chiellini and left-back Leonardo Spinazzola, while Marco Verratti was also an agreed choice in midfield.

In attack there was largely an agreed front three featuring Liverpool star Mohamed Salah as well as Kylian Mbappe but they both disagreed on who should spearhead centrally.

Neville opted to leave out Bayern Munich hitman Robert Lewandowski, recently voted at FIFA’s awards as the Best player in the world, electing to go with his Bundesliga rival Erling Haaland of Borussia Dortmund instead.

Neville opted for Erling Haaland (right) in attack while Carragher selected Robert Lewandowski

Neville said on Sky Sports: ‘You can’t not like Robert Lewandowski but I played against him quite a bit as England as a coach and he just didn’t really do a lot against us for Poland. I…