Manchester United are well and truly in the top four race, according to club legend Ryan Giggs.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side won their sixth league match in a row - seventh in all competitions - on Saturday when they beat Brighton 2-1 at Old Trafford.
After Chelsea's defeat to Arsenal at the Emirates, that leaves the Red Devils just three points adrift of the Blues in fourth, something few could have envisaged a month ago.
The impressive turnaround at the club is down to Solskjaer "lifting the place", says Giggs, and there is a belief that Champions League qualification is now possible.
"I believe the top four is on," Giggs told Sporting Life.
"Momentum is key. When you get to this part of the season and have a bit of momentum it is hard to stop.
"We are now even closer to Chelsea. If you look back a month ago it wasn’t even on the table really so to turn it around in such a short space of time, with the games we have coming up, top four is definitely the target.
"Rather than looking over our shoulders we are looking up and it is great to see."
Giggs, 45, has been impressed by how his former team-mate has gone about his business and improved the atmosphere within the team in such a short space of time.
"I’m not surprised by how he has done,” Giggs said ahead of the weekend's action.
“At any level when you win six on the trot it is a fantastic achievement, obviously everyone says they are games he should have won but there were some tricky games – Newcastle and Tottenham both away for example.
"Ole has done fantastic, the players have as well, the place has been lifted. It’s a different atmosphere now, I’ve been to a couple of games and it’s been brilliant, the manner we’ve won them by scoring lots of goals.
"Then we had to dig a result out at Tottenham, first half we were fantastic and the second David De Gea put on an amazing performance and we rode our luck a little bit. You have to do that to win games sometimes."
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