Manchester United began their preseason preps with a 0-1 loss to Rosenborg on Monday evening in Norway.
The Norwegian side hit the woodwork four times on Monday evening as they dominated the friendly yet struggled to breach the defence of the impressive Radek Vitek. However, a fortuitous bounce allowed Noah Holm to slam home the deserved winner in stoppage time.
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United coach Erik ten Hag wasn’t happy with the outing and said in his post match comments: “The result is not secondary. But of course, we play in pre-season, but at Manchester United the standard has to be winning games and definitely not to lose games. If you can’t win don’t lose the games but we did in the end, in the last seconds of the game.
“Of course, the performance is more important but we know the performance was below [the] standard. We can talk and make good on everything that was bad, but I am not that guy. I have seen that this is not the standard for top football. In top football, we have much higher standards, as an individual you must make sure you are fit.
“I know you cannot be a match fit in this moment, so we need these games to get there. I know we are playing against players who are already going in their lead, they have a much higher fitness level but still, we are Man Utd and players from Man Utd should perform better.”
Attention for United now shifts to Edinburgh where they are set for another friendly game against Rangers on Saturday afternoon.
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