With all honesty, I think Manchester United's winning streak will stop when they meet Manchester City later. Even I don't know what to say because their opponents this time are not a small team, but eternal rivals from the same city. In depth, the Man city squad is very superior in terms of players, even their reserves are not ordinary players. Even if Manchester United wins, it seems that they will only rely on luck in this match. Against Arsenal it is also impossible for the red devil squad to win, after being held to a draw by Newcastle in the next game, Arsenal certainly want to secure 3 important points so they can widen the distance from Man City.
The situation in Premier League is a bit hard for Manchester United and they need 9 points to reach Arsenal if you check the performance of Arsenal during the games so far on this season you can understand how hard is it for Manchester United to decrease these 9 points and in the other hand they fail with Ronaldo and after leaving this player they will need to get other strikers to have stronger players on the fields, however even thing is easier for Manchester City because they have what they need all theyneed to get is 5 points which is much easier compared to other teams.
And certainly, not as simple as we are discussing. The reason is, Arsenal have consistently played their matches in the second half of this season. Arsenal was only held to a draw by Newcastle at their own headquarters, even though the Gunners actually had a lot of opportunities, they just couldn't take advantage of the momentum. Arsenal are still at the top of the standings, only Man City is still overshadowing the Gunners by five points.
Manchester City has a great chance to narrow the gap between these two teams. even so, if Arsenal continues with its positive trend. that way, the only thing that can reduce the difference in points is from the postponed match between Arsenal and Manchester City.
by the way, Arteta is currently bringing in newcomers to smooth out the mission of winning a trophy this season. what is certain is that the Gunnes will be a stronger and more established team in terms of play.
For United, long as I know Ten Hag has never targeted anything this season. he just wants to bring his army squad to win game after game. their pattern of play is on the right track, Ten Hag only needs a pure striker to sharpen their front line. I am optimistic, United will finish in the top four until this season ends.