A young Manchester United were defeated 2-1 by Astana on Thursday night.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer handed debuts to Ethan Laird, Di'Shon Bernard and Dylan Levitt and fielded an XI with an average age of 22 years and 26 days.
Jesse Lingard scored after 10 minutes, his first in January, but Astana equalised early in the second-half through Dmitriy Shomko's deflected strike.
An own goal from Bernard ultimately gave the Kazakhs the win over United.
"I'll definitely take the positives," Solskjaer said to a press conference.
"Of course, we're disappointed with the end result, but I thought we started the game fantastically.
"The boys took control of the game and scored a fantastic goal and the response after they scored two was also good.
"I was disappointed with a 10-minute spell where you could feel the pressure was coming and we didn't get on the ball like we had."
He added: "The group have travelled together and played together, it's a very, very tight-knit group.
"It's been excellent - the training yesterday, the lead-up to the game, the travel and everything. I'm just sorry they couldn't go away from here with the win, because I thought they deserved to win the game."
