Manchester United's inconsistency this season is never a reason to write them of as Europa League contenders, they may not have been good from unset but there chances of winning the Europa League is still sure. Looking at the teams performance now, I think there is a significant change and the change can yield a good result for Manchester United this season. Although they started very bad but have improved dramatically and will soon gain consistency and balance to contest or even bag something at the end of this season.
Despite Manchester United’s poor start to the season they have showed a bit of improvement in their last three games which has significantly helped the team as a moral booster. I have a feeling that in the Europa league Manchester United will be more aggressive in their approach to the Europa League games, meaning that Manchester United will defeat Lyon and qualify to the next staged.
If that happen it wouldn't be a surprise to me because they been doing so well in the competition, since the starting of Europa league the remain the only team that haven't been defeated. This surprises many football fans but to me it was never a surprise because the strategies they use was actually the best, since the observed that they can't make it to the top in every competition with the current squad then they decided to look through them to know which they can perform well that why they have a very good performance in Europa league than any other team they played this season.
The weak performance they show in Premier League I think it was for a purpose, I know currently the performance they had now will make them appear in Premier league next season that why the keep on maintaining a good stand on Europa league.