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28th January 2016
04:59pm GMT

You'd excuse his exclusion if he had been been shut out because Zabaleta had favoured Yaya Toure or Kevin de Bruyne, or international teammates like Angel di Maria or Ezequiel Lavezzi.
Rather, Zabaleta has given the nod to 39-year-old midfielder Iván de la Peña, with whom Zabaleta played for three years at Espanyol.
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There can be no real complaints from anyone about the rest of the right back's five-a-side picks as he selected Joe Hart in goal and Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero up front.
Perhaps the only other contentious selection is the decision to pick Javier Mascherano ahead of Vincent Kompany but we're not really going to grumble about that.Explore more on these topics: