Pre-season games usually don't have any motivation for the top clubs to win the game. Yes, I agree that in this match both teams gave one hundred percent of their abilities. But this is not the first time a top team from the English league has lost to a mediocre team. I think Manchester United really made this a game to test a lot of different tactics. Rosenborg scored a goal late in the game so I think both teams played very well. But a defeat is still a defeat and Ten Hag also said that this was not the performance United should have.
If Ten Hag has started to realize this at Manchester United, of course he himself knows what he actually has to do before the season actually starts. Because in terms of time, it is still possible for Manchester United to make more evaluations and better strategies to be able to start next season as well as possible. And apart from that, losing in the pre-season match also didn't harm Manchester United even though it could make the mediocre team feel happy and enthusiastic enough to start next season in the Premier League.
Even though it was just a pre-season match or a friendly match. But from this match it can be seen that the quality of Man United's second tier players is not that good. In this match, many players who rarely played were given the opportunity to play and the results were not very good. There are many things that need to be improved in the Man United squad. And Ten Hag is certainly aware of this. But I don't want to say that in that match Man United used its full strength. In that match, I saw that Ten Hag was just testing strategies and evaluating the abilities of the players who were given the opportunity to play in that match.