The level of recovery witnessed under the new Manchester united is quite awesome and as long as they keep playing at the current speed their will definitely move to compete with Asernal for the first spot and if I must predict the outcome of this season I may say Manchester is likely to take man city spot as the second position in the next coming games.
Considering the current form at which Manchester United is displaying this time, the outcome of this season is unpredictable. Manchester United can overtake both Manchester city and Arsenal and top the league or might come up second.
Between this three teams at the top, nobody can predict who wins the league, the race is still open and unpredictable.
5 points is not a big difference and there are about 14 games to be played so in play there are 42 points and both Arsenal and City have difficult games in the Premier League during such time and this means that anything can happen.Of course Manchester United is not the favorite,the big ones are Arsenal and City but the fact that both these teams have made several errors in their last games,bigger errors than Manchester United means that chances are there even for Manchester United to keep fighting for the title this year.A good test will be their clash in Europa League,if the manage to qualify against Barcelona that would be a true moral booster to them.