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Paul Clarke

Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher make Manchester United Premier League top four prediction

Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher have offered up their takes on where Manchester United will finish in the Premier League this season.

Manchester United drew 1-1 at Wolves on Monday Night Football and afterwards the former Red Devils and Liverpool greats detailed how they think the 2019/20 campaign will unfold.

Neville feels that United have the capabilities to finish inside the Champions League qualification places after a sixth-place finish last season, partly due to the weakened nature of fellow rivals Chelsea this season.

"I think United will get in the top four. I think they’re stronger (than Chelsea). Not just because of what happened last week, I just think they’ve got more options at centre-forward with (Anthony) Martial and (Marcus) Rashford," Neville told Sky Sports.

"Chelsea will struggle to score goals. I think centre-forward is a problem for them and losing (Eden) Hazard, obviously, is just devastating."

Liverpool legend Carragher, meanwhile, believes it will be a two-horse race for fourth between United and Arsenal.

"Listen, I think it’s a toss up with Arsenal. It’s probably whoever goes furthest in the Europa League that could cause a problem in terms of that," Carragher told Sky Sports.

"When you talked about Manchester United have more options up front than Chelsea, I totally agree with that but I actually think that the firepower Arsenal have got maybe just edges Manchester United. I think (Alexander) Lacazette and (Pierre-Emerick) Aubameyang, that’s a proper goal threat that. It’s probably as good as anything, in terms of two strikers.

"You think of Liverpool and City, they play with one striker and the two wide players. But they look like they have an abundance there in attack - and we haven’t even really seen (Nicolas) Pepe yet."

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