And besides, the opponents are not very good, to say the least. These matches will really show nothing, except to calm down MU fans for a while, but nothing more than that. When the season starts, they may start showing terrible results again. Besides, they may do well in the first half of the season but completely fail in the second half, there's no guessing, and all the responsibility will still fall on Ten Hag's shoulders.
These matches are very deceptive, that is like the friendlies that the South American teams show before the qualifiers, they never show what they have, they only show it in official matches, in the case of MU they belong to a league that is the most demanding in the world so far, so these matches are useful for the players to get to the level, understand each other , be able to try strategies, see how the top teams are, if it is worth it or not, these are the things that help.
Manchester United’s Erik Ten Hag Fumes After Loss to Norwegian Team in Preseason
After the game, Manchester United manager Erik Ten Hag savaged his club for its lackadaisical performance. "The result is not secondary. We play pre-season but at Manchester United, there's a standard," Ten Hag said postgame via Sky Sports. "You win games. Definitely you don't lose games. If you can't win, don't lose the game as we did at the end, the last second of the game." Rosenborg outshot Ten Hag's team 22–5, allowing Manchester United goalie Radek Vitek to make six saves.
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Of course, even though there is a similar vision between Klopp and Arne Slot, there still has to be something that is characteristic of Arne Slot and that will definitely happen.
And for me this is what will make the team initially unite and take Slot with a lot of respect, because they already come with a job done, with a marked trajectory, and making corrections to the vulnerabilities they had previously, Liverpool seems to me to have a lot of potential if Slot knows how to exploit it.