The Great Debate: Who are the best team you've ever seen? | OneFootball

Manchester City have won 18 games in a row and could make it 19 on Wednesday evening.

Pep Guardiola’s side are on fire, so we have one simple question.

Who are the best team you’ve ever laid eyes on?

Lewis Ambrose

Barcelona, obviously. The 2010/11 side, obviously. The best football ever played, and with results.

Messi was at his peak, so were Xavi and Iniesta. David Villa and Pedro were the perfect forwards in support. Busquets, Piqué and Puyol combined brilliance and elegance and physicality. Dani Alves was the finest wing-back the world has ever seen.

This isn’t a contest.

Dan Burke

Manchester City’s 2017/18 Centurions team has to be the answer for yours truly.

No Premier League side has racked up that many points before or since, they broke numerous other records along the way, and the football was breathtaking to watch.

Then again, the treble winning side in 2018/19 wasn’t bad either. Sophie’s Choice was easier than this!

Matt Frohlich

Although their feat of winning all six trophies has just been matched by Bayern, the Barcelona team of 2008-2010 is still the best.

Of course, they played brilliant, attacking football and swept aside all before them, but looking at how Pep’s team popularised parts of modern football which we now see so frequently copied today, just shows how era-defining this side was.

It was more than just winning, it was quite literally game-changing.

Alex Mott

No, not *that* Barcelona. The other one, the one I genuinely found more exciting to watch and one that could have gone on to even greater heights if Neymar hadn’t decided to try and step out of Lionel Messi’s shadow.

I’m talking about Luis Enrique’s great Barça vintage that beat Juventus in the 2015 Champions League final and completely the clean sweep of LaLiga and Copa del Rey titles too.

That season, Messi, Neymar and Luis Suárez became arguably the greatest front three in football history, scoring a quite ridiculous 112 goals in all competitions.

What a side.

Joel Sanderson-Murray

Going to go a bit left-field here and opt for the Manchester United team between 2007 and 2009 (although the right answer is obviously THAT Barcelona team).

But this United team was impenetrable at the back (14 consecutive clean sheets in 08/09) and boasted one of the best attacking trios in Premier League history (Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez).

Two successive league titles, one Champions League win followed by another final the year after – as a Liverpool fan this was not enjoyable to watch in the slightest.

Pádraig Whelan

From about 2003 until 2007, Carlo Ancelotti’s Milan had one of the greatest teams ever, conquering Europe twice (and it should have been three).

Cafu, Alessandro Nesta, Paolo Maldini and Kahka Kaladze in defence. A midfield diamond of Andrea Pirlo, Gennaro Gattuso, Clarence Seedorf and Kaká. Andriy Shevchenko and Pippo Inzaghi up front.

That’s without mentioning the likes of Jaap Stam, Manuel Rui Costa and Hernán Crespo who came in and out. Goalkeeper Dida was the only real weak link.

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