Darren Fletcher says winning the Premier League title will significantly enhance United’s chances of beating Chelsea in the Champions League final later this month.

The title race has gone right to the wire, with Sunday’s finale seeing United travel to Wigan Athletic and Chelsea entertain Bolton Wanderers to decide the trophy’s destination.

The Reds are clearly in the driving seat, needing to equal or better Chelsea’s result to clinch the Premier League crown in successive seasons.

“If we can win the league it will give us great momentum to take into the Champions League final,” says Fletcher. “Pipping Chelsea to the league and winning it for the second year in a row would give us great confidence. And we owe Chelsea one. We lost the FA Cup final and then lost the league game recently.”

But before attentions turns to the Luzhniki Stadium on 21 May, United must finish the job in the league. Flether concedes it is unlikely to be an easy ride on Sunday.

“Wigan is not going to be an easy game,” he said. “A lot has been said about the pitch and it doesn’t suit our style of play. These are things you come up against. You play away from home on dry pitches that haven’t been cut, and they are cutting the grass after the game.

“There’s all sorts of things go on away from home and teams are not going to make it easy for you. But we have been in these situations before and the dressing room is full of players that have experience of it and have come through it.”