When the team is the 4 best team in the league and a long way
ahead of the fifth place team then finishing four is no achievement.
The Red Devils currently occupy fourth place in the Premier League with then games to go until the end of the season and they are two points
clear of fifth placed Liverpool.
A loss for the Red Devils would put them back in fourth place following Manchester City's 3 - 2 home win over Aston Villa yesterday and seven points ahead
of fifth placed Liverpool, having played a game more.
Our biggest victory over Middlesbrough that I can recall was in the final game of our record breaking Premier League season of 1998 - 99, when two goals from Trevor Sinclair, and one each from Lampard and Keller gave us a 4 - 0 victory and a finishing league
position of fifth place.
A team that capitulated in the Carabao Cup final and embarrassed the Club with the most abject surrender of a performance any Wembley final has ever seen.A team with no obvious signs of improvement bearing in mind this Manager some how over achieved last season by guiding us to the
heights of a FIFTH place finish after we managed SECOND the season before.Note I have not even mentioned getting knocked out of the FA Cup by a Notts Forrest reserve side that have hardly won a game since.
McIlroy booked a confidence - building, third - lowest score of the finale (after Stenson and Mickelson), good enough to lift him into a distant
share of fifth place.
Toro Rosso could have hit their pre-season
target of fifth place had it not been for another reset in their driver line - up and more reliability problems.
Serie A surprise Sicilians Catania this Saturday host reigning champion AC Milan.Catanisa have lost in their last 10 matches only once (defeat to Juventus 3 - 1) and currently is sitting six points
adrift of fifth place, and its on the verge for qualifying for the Europa league next season.
The title is well out of reach and they are nine points ahead
of fifth place Sevilla's chances of falling out of the top four and the Champions League places are minimal.
However, Gareth Bale's transformation into one of the best players on the planet, helped Andre Villas - Boas lead Tottenham to 72 points in the 2012 - 13 campaign — a club record, although it was only
worthy of fifth place and another year in the Europa League.
Mourinho's side are 14 points clear
of fifth placed Chelsea and will be guaranteed to qualify for the Champions League if the Blues fail to beat Burnley on Thursday.
Schalke sit eight points ahead
of fifth place and have a very manageable stretch run so there may be opportunities for the youngster to see additional playing time.