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06th Feb 2016

Andrea Pirlo doesn’t name a single Leicester player in his Premier League dream XI

Manchester City dominate

Darragh Murphy

When we heard wine connoisseur, style icon and part-time footballer Andrea Pirlo had named his dream team of current Premier League players, we were expecting it to look like this.

Schmeichel; Simpson, Morgan, Huth, Fuchs; Kanté, Drinkwater, Albrighton; Okazaki, Mahrez; Vardy.

But perhaps the Foxes’ heroics have flown under Pirlo’s radar as not one of Leicester’s players feature in the Italy international’s XI, as revealed in his interview with Shortlist magazine.

In fact, Manchester City dominate the side with five players from the Etihad taking Pirlo’s fancy.

Reigning champions Chelsea have John Terry and Branislav Ivanovic representing them while Arsenal have three players in the line-up.

Philippe Coutinho is the only Liverpool player to make the XI.

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And for those of you who don’t recognise all those players from their faces alone, the line-up is as follows:

Hart (Manchester City)

Ivanovic (Chelsea)

Kompany (Manchester City)

Terry (Chelsea)

Monreal (Arsenal)

De Bruyne (Manchester City)

Coutinho (Liverpool)

Toure (Manchester City)

Ozil (Arsenal)

Alexis (Arsenal)

Aguero (Manchester City)