What do Man Utd have to do to safe Champions League soccer?

With the midwinter Qatar World Cup throwing up an unprecedented black gap within the domestic-football diary, the schedule after Christmas has been totally frantic, particularly for the groups nonetheless concerned in cup competitions, like Manchester United.

The result’s that, with simply six weeks of the marketing campaign to play out, we nonetheless do not know who will win the title, or the identification of the three top-flight sides that can be demoted to play Championship soccer in 2023/24.

Maybe the wildest struggle, although, will centre round European soccer, with the likes of Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion nonetheless harbouring top-four hopes.

The Reds are presently well-placed to safe a place again within the Champions League for subsequent time period, however Tottenham are scorching on our tails whereas Liverpool received’t fairly have given up the ghost but, regardless of a below-par season by their latest lofty requirements.

Right here, forward of United’s journey to relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest, we check out the general top-four image – what number of video games does every competing aspect have left and what’s the utmost quantity of factors they’ll safe?

We’ve additionally enlisted the assistance of two former Reds in Wes Brown and Dion Dublin, plus membership journalists Sam Carney and Joe Nelson, as they predict the end result of our remaining video games and which they assume can be most vital…