This cannot be controlled and yes, Manchester is a mediocre team this season after recording some good things last season. Together with Erik Ten Hag, Manchester United is a very chaotic team and everyone always criticizes his performance this season, which is considered a failure compared to what he did last season. I don't know how long this will last and what is clear is that at the end of this season there must be a discussion from Manchester United management about retaining Erik Ten Hag or replacing him with a new coach.
There is no difference between Chelsea and Manchester United this season and both have had bad results. But at least Chelsea is still a little better even though they are quite late. The possibility of swapping positions for these two teams is still possible and Chelsea is also getting closer to overtaking Manchester United in the standings and that will be their turning point this season.
In fact, Manchester United's performance has been very bad in the previous few seasons, but it's just that many people's expectations of Manchester United are quite high after last season Ten Hag managed to slightly improve the performance of the Manchester United team and that was also Te Hag's first season as coach of Manchester United, with many Ten Hag's changes at the start of the season made many people speculate that Manchester United this season would be very strong, but what happened was far from expectations so that the Manchester United team was considered to be in a very bad state this season.
Chelsea and Manchester United are both top Premier League teams that are currently in a slump, but I think it is difficult to compare the two because these two teams have a very big chance of getting up soon, it could be one of them or even both.