Manchester United will surely find it difficult to rank up higher in the EPL. I think it is already late, even though they still have more matches. We are not sure if they are going to win those matches, and that's the reason why they will find it difficult to go higher. However, I think for them to catch up with Aston Villa, we still have Tottenham in front, and Aston Villa are also doing their best currently, so you can see that is not something Manchester United are going to get now. It will surely delay. They need to win more matches so that they can be able to go higher. but they may put in more effort so they can get ticket for the UCL.
Chelsea has just smashed Manchester City 3 days a go after they visited Etihad, and now the next match on weekend they have is Tottenham, if we are too look at Chelsea last 3 matches, Tottenham will suffer in the hand of Chelsea in the coming weekend and if Chelsea win that match and Manchester united win Fulham which is possible, they will come closer to Aston Villa but if they win Aston win Nottingham, then Tottenham will be the only team that will face the consequences but Manchester United has more chance of finished among the top, their last 5 matches speak a lot about their performance.
It will not be fun if Manchester United don't make it to the Champions League next season and also Chelsea doesn't, it will look like most of the heavy weight Champions of the Premier League are underperforming, only Manchester City and Liverpool still stand out among the rest.