What are people smoking? Dan's midfield is incredibly average; Edu, Gilberto Silva? Bleh. It wouldn't be so bad but Dan is up against Makelele, Seedorf and Stankovic. Makelele and Seedorf alone are better than Dan's entire midfield triangle.
Also, while Lucio was great, i was never a fan of Juan. Brian has a nice, balanced pairing, with two CL winners, a left footer and a right footer, Helguera's passing ability out of the backline and Samuel's no nonsense approach.
Brian wins this fairly comfortably for me.