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.
They may have lost to Rosenborg, but if you look at the match statistics, Manchester United could not show any presence. Rosenborg found 22 positions, while Manchester United found only 5 positions. Manchester United has been playing mediocre in the pre-season. If these games continue this year, we will probably see Ten Hag dismissed from the team before the end of the season.
If Manchester United had been beaten after performing well, we would not have been so critical. But Manchester United's performance in this match was very bad. Instead, Rosenborg's players performed well. And they deserve to win this match. If Rosenborg had an experienced striker in the attack, Manchester United would have conceded at least 3 goals in this match.
Rosenborg had 54% of the ball. Able to make a total of 22 shots. And 7 of those shots were on target. Manchester United players on the other hand had only 5 shots in the entire match and two of them were on target. Rosenborg's players played very well. And Rosenborg won this match by performing well.