Manchester United

After early goals Carlos García and Anthony Lozano inside the first 14 minutes for the home side, United fought back through an Anthony Martial penalty in the ...

21 -- three days after the World Cup final. [Zidane Iqbal](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/325549/Zidane-Iqbal) was fouled in the box and Martial scored from the penalty spot with a Panenka. [Victor Lindelof](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/204679/Victor-Lindelöf), [Aaron Wan-Bissaka](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/250945/Aaron-Wan-Bissaka), [Scott McTominay](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/255850/Scott-McTominay), [Donny van de Beek](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/215717/Donny-van-de-Beek), [Alejandro Garnacho](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/325555/Alejandro-Garnacho), [Anthony Elanga](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/296622/Anthony-Elanga) and Martial. [Anthony Lozano](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/207205/Anthony-Lozano) inside the first 14 minutes for the home side, United fought back through an [Anthony Martial](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/181140/Anthony-Martial) penalty in the 21st minute and a [Kobbie Mainoo](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/328466/Kobbie-Mainoo) goal three minutes after he came on as a half-time substitute. [Real Betis](/soccer/team?id=244) in Spain on Saturday before competitive games return following the World Cup with a Carabao Cup round of 16 matchup at home to Burnley on Dec. [Manchester United](/soccer/team?id=360) fell to a 4-2 defeat in a friendly with LaLiga side [Cádiz](/soccer/team?id=3842) on Wednesday, despite coming back from two goals down to temporarily draw level at the Nuevo Mirandilla.

The Dutchman opted to take a whole host of first-team players that didn't head off to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup to Spain in order to keep them sharp ...

Especially in the midfield, we got run off, this is not possible. 'After that, we came into the game. 'They gave energy,' he said. A set-play, bad organisation and bad discipline in the organisation, and you concede a goal. 'You are not awake. And Ten Hag was not happy with his side's display - particularly in the first half.

Match report and player ratings from Man Utd's friendly defeat against La Liga side Cadiz.

Marc Jurado - 6/10 - Naive to try and catch Cadiz offside; should've tried to clear the cross regardless. Always keen to get on the ball and impose himself onto the game. GK: Martin Dubravka - 5/10 - Could do nothing stop either of the two early goals. Naïve defensively, though - plenty to learn from and work on. Not a performance that's going to force him back in over Raphael Varane and Lisandro Martinez. Their shape was good and they broke beyond the Cadiz press on a number of occasions, putting together slick passing sequences. Ten Hag's much-changed and now incredibly youthful side made a better account of themselves in the final 20 minutes or so. Cadiz switched the angle of a free-kick from deep and Carlos Garcia snuck in behind the jumping Victor Lindelof to head beyond Martin Dubravka for 1-0. Committing plenty of bodies forward, Cadiz were able to steal back possession and piece together a counter attack down the right flank. Ruben Sorino got onto the end of a wicked, in-swinging cross that caught United's young backline out when trying to play offside. Ten Hag's side built up play well in spells, with loose passes and poor touches to be expected to an extent. A heavily rotated United outfit showed their lacking sharpness in the first half, falling two goals down early on but managing to pull one back before the break.

Erik ten Hag chose to take on the Spanish side to keep first-team players sharp who had not travelled to the Qatar World Cup, whether they were left behind by ...