Manchester United are in the 7th position thanks to Brighton defeat but next game vs Chelsea isn't reassuring and they can drop in ranking if they lose it.
I also see that their performance this year is very worrying, of course if Chelsea is consistent in the match they will steal points at their opponent's base, this will again create a bad image for Manchester United. If they want to appear in other leagues next year, of course they have to maintain their current position until the end of this league, otherwise their hopes of appearing in other leagues will be dashed.
Chelsea players are showing some seriousness in some matches but they are not consistent in their winning which is the major challenge many people are experiencing from Chelsea in this season. If you look at the premier league table you will discovered that Manchester united is still ahead of Chelsea despite Chelsea won their last match with 3-2 to defeated their opponent, and nobody know if they will be able to win their next match to make people believe that they are good to increase their performance. If you look at Manchester united players very well, you will know that the challenges they are facing right now is the goalkeeper because since they brought this new keeper Onana, Manchester united started to experience some poor performance.
I think Man United will definitely regret letting De Gea go and bringing in Onana. Although I personally don't see that the many goals scored against Man United were due to Onana's fault. Because I think no matter how good a goalkeeper is, it will still be difficult if a team's defenders are just as bad at protecting the defense. I see Man United defenders also making more mistakes this season. So it is not surprising that Onana also finds it difficult to keep the goal from conceding the ball. I followed Onana in Serie A when he played for Inter Milan. And I know he's a great goalkeeper. His greatness was even proven in the Champions League Final when Inter played against Man City. Onana saved Inter Milan's goal a lot from every attack by Man City players at that time. But I was surprised when Onana made a lot of mistakes and was bad at Man United. So I started to think that there was something that made the Man United players uncomfortable when playing. Because not only Onana but the other Man United players also seemed uncomfortable when they played. So we often see blunders made by Man United players. Even though last season they weren't like that.
Chelsea is currently starting to improve. But yeah they are not consistent. Because in 1 or 2 matches Chelsea sometimes played well. But in the next match it got worse again. Pochettino does have a tough task. Because he made his debut there with the Chelsea squad in really bad condition since last season. So it's natural that Pochettino needs more time there. But Man United at the end of last season they were so good. But then started this season badly. Well that is a different matter. But it could be that Chelsea is heading for better improvement and conversely Man United is getting worse like Chelsea last season.