Erik ten Hag praised Manchester United's character after they fought back from conceding a "stupid" goal to end their pre-season campaign with a draw against Athletic Bilbao.Facundo Pellestri’s stoppage-time equaliser, which was set up by Harry Maguire, secured a 1-1 draw with ten-man Bilbao at Dublin's Aviva Stadium on Sunday afternoon.However for the second time in 48 hours, they had to come from behind after Maguire’s error had gifted the LaLiga outfit a first-half lead.Ten Hag said: "In one weekend, two times we are losing, but you see this team have character and that’s what you need in a season as well."Sometimes you are down and then you have to show resilience and especially in such moments, you need determination.
We have shown that this weekend, it was a good weekend for us."Yesterday I thought it was a very good level, today I have seen also very good spells."I think the start of the game was also very good and we should have scored a goal to go up, because it was a great chance from Jadon Sancho."We had some good moments after that as well and it was stupid how we went down, but as I said, we had a result and we came back so it was a good weekend for us."Maguire, who was replaced as United captain by Bruno Fernandes during a summer of speculation over his future, was included as one of 11 changes to the side which beat Lens 3-1 at Old Trafford on Saturday, but there was no place for injured €83m signing Rasmus Hojlund, a day after he had been presented to the club's fans.Ten Hag’s men might have got off to the perfect start when Pellistri played Sancho in behind the Athletic defence with just four minutes gone, but his attempt was blocked by goalkeeper Unai Simon.Goalkeeper Tom Heaton was called upon to claim