In a combined Man City and Man United XI, Rio Ferdinand omits both Haaland and Bruyne.
The former center back played for Man United for the majority of his career, winning six Premier League championships and the Champions League among other honors.
Ferdinand was entrusted with assembling a team made up of some of the greatest players from the fierce rivals because City will be attempting to achieve a historic Treble when they face Inter Milan in the final of Europe's top club championship on Saturday.
Many similarities have been made between Pep Guardiola's team and the United team that won the Treble in 1999 in the run-up to Saturday's grand finale, but Ferdinand chose players from a more contemporary team.
The former captain of England would choose just three players from the current City team.
Edwin van der Sar defeated Ederson's challenge to remove the gloves first, and that choice was made.
Ferdinand chose the first of his City trio for the right back position, going with England star Kyle Walker over former United defender Wes Brown.
The 44-year-old chose himself over the flexible John Stones on the right of a central defensive pairing, and his longtime partner Nemanja Vidic joined him in front of Ruben Dias. He did this with a sneer on his face.
After Patrice Evra was chosen over Nathan Ake, Ilkay Gundogan and Rodri were selected ahead of Owen Hargreaves and Michael Carrick, respectively, to round out the City selections.
Paul Scholes narrowly retained Belgian maestro, who is thought of as the only selection to have appeared to be close, after
Five-time Awarded the Ballon d'Or Jack Grealish lost his position on the left wing to Cristiano Ronaldo, and Carlos Tevez replaced his young countryman Julian Alvarez on the right.
The most intense rivalry, though, was probably for the central forward position, where Wayne Rooney and Erling Haaland were battling for a spot.
Only Harry Kane has scored more goals for the Three Lions than Rooney, who has scored more than 200 Premier League goals. However, Erling Haaland has established himself as a force of nature this season.
However, in order for the former England captain to complete the starting XI, the Striking Viking, who has broken records at every turn in his maiden season in English football, was left out.
Sir Alex Ferguson, the only manager to have won a Triple with an English team to yet, was chosen over Guardiola in a final victory for United.
Guardiola faces Inter in the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, so it is unclear if he will be able to emulate the legendary player who retired from Manchester United.
Although the Italian team has achieved a cup double this season after winning the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana, and manager Simone Inzaghi is unbeaten in seven finals, they will undoubtedly be the underdogs for the match.
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