Manchester United will face major obstacles in making this happen. United's rivals, Tottenham and Aston Villa, should consistently fail to accumulate points. Tottenham is only 6 points ahead, united while Aston Villa is 9 points to the united. The main issue is that the remaining matches are becoming fewer, and it is extremely difficult for Manchester United to overtake Aston Villa and Tottenham considering fewer matches remaining make it even harder and mu potentially widen the gap.
Things at least look better for Manchester United as if they win their delayed match, they will have only 6 points less than both Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur. It is a smaller gap than weeks ago and with 9 more matches, Manchester United can hope that Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur will lose points because these competitors are not stable in their performances.
However, Manchester United must get nearly perfection in their rest matches and it is very challenging task for them. If they can not do it, dropped points from two competitors might not be helpful for Manchester United to improve their ranking at all.
Yes, it's true that Manchester United actually have a very tough task in the remaining games this season if they want to overtake Aston Villa and Tottenham. But actually just seeing Man United ranked now is quite a good thing considering they started the season quite badly. Man United started to improve since the middle of the season. And it's the same thing as last season. But in the current season I feel Man United will not be able to repeat the same thing as last season. Namely, last season Man United even got consecutive wins in almost all the remaining matches last season which made Man United get a ticket to the UCL in the end at that time. So, this season, I don't think Man United will be able to do the same thing, even just to get a ticket to the European League. Because a difference of 6 or 9 points is actually quite difficult to catch. Because Man United must hope that Aston Villa and Tottenham experience several defeats in the remainder of this season.