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Lee Wilmot

Manchester United handed timely boost in Champions League race with Chelsea and Tottenham

Football will return to our screens in the next three weeks.

The Premier League is back after elite level sport behind closed doors was given the green light by the UK Government last week.

The rest of the 2019/20 fixture scheduled will kick-off on Wednesday, June 17, with Manchester City taking on Arsenal and Sheffield United facing off against Aston Villa.

With Liverpool winning the title only a matter of games away, attention will be on the race for the top four and the relegation battle at the bottom.

Chelsea are the current incumbents of fourth place, holding a three-point advantage of Manchester United.

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Wolves and Sheffield United are five behind the Blues, with Tottenham seven adrift and Arsenal eight back.

All six sides will think they have a chance of reaching the Champions League in the final nine or ten games of the campaign when football returns later this month.

And Manchester United have been handed a boost in the battle with Chelsea and Tottenham for that coveted fourth spot.

It had looked like the coronavirus would leave United short of attacking options, with Odion Ighalo due to return to Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua.

However, United have confirmed that they have reached an agreement with the Chinese side to extend Ighalo's loan deal until January 2021, meaning he is available for the 2019/20 run-in and the start of the 2020/21 season too, whenever that may be.

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