Gary Neville has backed Manchester United to finish inside the top four of the Premier League at the end of the season, while Jamie Carragher believes Erik ten Hag's men will miss out on a Champions League spot.
United have won seven of their opening 12 top-flight matches, losing just three times - two of which came on the opening two weekends of the season against Brighton and Brentford. United have been much-improved in the past few months and are in a good position in both the league and in Europe.
Arsenal currently find themselves at the top of the Premier League table after an impressive start to the campaign, while Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool have struggled this term and are in danger of not qualifying for the Champions League next season.
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With the World Cup beginning later this month, and the league season pausing until Boxing Day, Sky Sports pundit Neville thinks there will be a 'second part' to the campaign, before going on to reveal who he thinks will secure a Champions League position.
"City are guaranteed obviously and I think Tottenham will get in there. I want to say Arsenal because I think they will be," Neville told Mirror Football.
"I think this season will be split into two and I think you'll see a completely different momentum change and shift at some point in the season. It will just completely change at some point - not at the top, I think City will run away with it.
"But I think Liverpool will come back. We've not seen Chelsea, what are they going to do, are they going to hang in there? Are Arsenal going to hang in there? Tottenham, I don't think will fade away.
"I think it will become a right tangle and mess come February, March and I think the business end of the season will look completely different to how it looks today. So I will go City, Arsenal Tottenham, United, I think and then I think Chelsea and Liverpool will just miss out.
"But to be honest with you, this idea that Arsenal will definitely get top four, I don't go along with that yet personally. I think they have got to prove it towards the end of the season even though I've loved watching them at the moment and they're brilliant."
On the other hand, Carragher believes that Liverpool will eventually come good this season, despite the Merseyside club having won just four Premier League matches this term.
The ex-Liverpool defender also suggested that he doesn't think United will finish inside the top four and left the Reds out of his predicted sides to do so.
"I think pretty similarly, I do think the north London clubs will both get in it now, I really do believe that, I have loved watching Arsenal they've been almost my favourite team to watch this season," Carragher said.
"I think Liverpool will get in there ahead of Chelsea and then the two north London clubs alongside Man City. But I think it will be a fight that will go right to the wire and as a Liverpool supporter if you offered me top four now I would bite your hand off because I think Liverpool are in a right fight for that, they could easily finish sixth.
"But I do think Liverpool will stick in there because I do think in that second half of the season we've got to see the Liverpool of old at some stage and when Liverpool get back to that it is too much for everybody else in this league, except Man City.
"Whether they ever get back to that consistency it's going to be tough for them."
Neville's Premier League top four: Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Man United
Carragher's Premier League top four: Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool
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