Michael Carrick believes Manchester United are capable of mounting a title challenge.

United host Liverpool today.

Carrick told United Review: "It was a big weekend with Chelsea losing at Newcastle and other results going for us. If we are in and around the top by Christmas or January then we are right in there with a chance.

"I think with this squad that we have, which is gradually improving and building, then anything can happen. It is all won and lost in the last two or three months of the season, so the aim is definitely to challenge."