"One bad result and it could all change," Scholes told MUTV.
"It is not nice to lose games, they have not had that feeling for a while and you never know how it might affect them.
"They have plenty of points in hand and we need them to slip up. But if we can beat them tomorrow, they could start dropping a few points in the league as well."
The ginger prince is more concerned for the team than for his own personal ambitions:
"I don't really set targets," he said. "Maybe if I could get up to 15 goals I would be quite happy but basically it's a team game and the most important thing is that we win."