Manchester United vs Liverpool: The worst combined XI as the two giants of Premier League football get set to do battle on Sunday afternoon
Ahead of Sunday's showdown at Old Trafford talkSPORT take a look at the least talented players to ever turn out for the clubs
MANCHESTER UNITED and Liverpool are the two most successful teams in English football history.
Their rivalry is also the most fierce in the Premier League, but now, ahead of Sunday's massive showdown at Old Trafford, we take a look at the slightly less successful side of the two clubs.
With a little help from , we pick the WORST ever Manchester United-Liverpool combined XI, with amazing results.
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GOALKEEPER: Massimo Taibi
REPLACING Peter Schmeichel was always going to be a monumental task, but Sir Alex Ferguson got it so, so wrong with Taibi.
The Italian signed in 1999, played just four games making a spate of horrendous errors leading to goals, including letting a tame shot slip between his legs against Southampton in a 3-3 draw.
The 5-0 humiliation at the hands of Chelsea saw the end of him... and those Julian Speroni-style tracksuit bottoms.
RIGHT-BACK: Philipp Degen
SWISS full-back Degen was the last in a string of appalling right-backs at Liverpool in the late-00s, following Josemi and Jan Kromkamp.
Fortunately almost always deputising for Steve Finnan, Degen rarely took to the pitch for Liverpool.
He was so disliked - as a player - at the club, that Kop idol Jamie Carragher once tweeted: "Thought the night couldn't get any worse but it has... Philipp Degen is now warming up in front of me."
CENTRE-BACK: Mauricio Pellegrino
ONCE dubbed 'slower than evolution' on a Liverpool fan site, Pellegrino signed back in 2005 from Valencia.
The brutal speed of the Premier League exposed the Argentine's most fatal flaw, as he went on to make just 14 appearances.
In fact, following a shambolic performance in a 2-0 loss to Southampton, former Reds star Alan Hansen described it as 'the worst performance I've seen since I left the club in 1990'.
CENTRE-BACK: William Prunier
FAMOUSLY remembered for being Eric Cantona's friend from France, the centre-back was one of the worst players to ever pull on the United shirt.
Prunier played just twice for the club, including a 4-1 drubbing at the hands of Tottenham, where his first touch was a sprayed pass to absolutely no-one - summing up his career rather succinctly.
Even Fergie described him as a 'disaster'. Ouch.
LEFT-BACK: Djimi Traore
'DON'T blame it on the Biscan, don’t blame it on the Hamann, don’t blame it on the Finnan, blame it on Traore. He just can’t, he just can’t, he just can’t control his feet...'
That's what Liverpool fans would aptly sing - to the tune of Blame It On The Boogie - to the error-prone defender, who famously scored one of the worst own goals in history against Burnley.
The only slightly redeeming quality was helping Liverpool win the 2005 Champions League final against AC Milan during the Miracle of Istanbul.
CENTRAL MIDFIELD: Eric Djemba-Djemba
AS the old saying goes - 'So bad they named him twice' - Djemba-Djemba has edged out the woeful Kleberson and Liam Miller into this XI.
He even signed at the same time as a young forward called Cristiano Ronaldo, making the deal look all the more spectacularly poor.
Djemba-Djemba was sold to Aston Villa, where he continued to leave fans underwhelmed...
CENTRAL MIDFIELD: Salif Diao
BROUGHT into Liverpool on the back of Senegal's successful World Cup campaign in 2002 - along with the controversial El-Hadji Diouf - Diao was an instant Reds flop.
In fact, club legend Carragher even said of the midfielder: "He couldn't pass, was a liability when he tackled and never looked capable of scoring a goal. And they were his good qualities."
Never one to mince his words, Carra...
CENTRAL MIDFIELD: Christian Poulsen
ARGUABLY the worst of Roy Hodgson's dreadful Liverpool signings - which included Paul Konchesky and a well past-it Joe Cole.
The Danish midfielder came in with a superb reputation, so Roy can be forgiven.
But when Jay Spearing is keeping you out of the first XI, you know your days are numbered.
RIGHT WING: Antonio Nunez
PART of the incredible deal which saw star forward Michael Owen join Real Madrid, Nunez will never be forgotten at Anfield.
The winger was so out of place at Liverpool that many assumed he was a Bernabeu steward who 'pulled an Ali Dia'.
Quite how Nunez managed to have Real and the Reds on his CV is a simply staggering feat...
RIGHT WING: Milan Jovanovic
ANOTHER Roy-era player, the speedy winger somehow racked up 18 appearances for Liverpool.
Famously part of the team who lost to lowly Northampton in the League Cup, that was as good as it got for Jovanovic.
Even on a free, the Reds overspent on the Serbian.
STRIKER: Bebe
THE forward famed for being the man 'Fergie watched on YouTube' Bebe was a Premier League flop of the highest order.
United splashed £7m on the Portuguese ace when Dutch side PSV Eindhoven declined him for nothing.
On Bebe, Ferguson could only exclaim: "Football, bloody hell."
MANAGER: Roy Hodgson
DAVID MOYES, Louis van Gaal and Kenny Dalglish's most recent stint don't even come close to Hodgson's ill-fated stint at Liverpool.
The former Fulham boss made a series of atrocious signings - many of which made this XI - and was even the man in charge for that Cobblers cup car crash.
Hodgson lasted just four months at Anfield.