However, it was the hosts who enjoyed the best of the opening 45 minutes – but they could just not find any way past Vitek.
He was called into action several times to deny Rosenborg from making the breakthrough.
But he was equal to it on each and every occasion and produced four big saves to keep it goalless at the break.
United legend Ronny Johnsen was summarising the game for MUTV and he was blown away by the 6ft 6in star’s performance in the opening period.
He said: “The saves he had were very important and, also for a goalkeeper, to come in and make saves like this in your first game is important.
“He has stood up and made himself big – which he is.
“He was doing really good saves.”
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And those fans watching on from home were soon hailing him as “the second coming of [Gianluigi] Buffon” with others calling for him to be No.1 instead of Andre Onana.
One fan stated: “I forgot what ten hag ball looked like – this s*** is outrageously bad, only positive is that vitek is the second coming of Buffon.”
“I saw enough play Vitek instead of Onana,” commented another with a third saying: “Vitek is a monster, Onana should be checking his mirrors.”
Another wrote: “Radek Vitek is him what a class goalkeeper hopefully gets more game time with us.”
“Vitek has saved us from being 3 or 4 nil down,” claimed another.
While a fellow fan added: “Radek Vitek definitely taking his chance today. Making some top saves.”
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But just when it looked like Vitek would single-handedly earn Man Utd a draw, he was beaten by a deflected strike in the dying seconds.
Vitek headed to United from Sigma Olomouc back in 2020 and he has risen through the ranks of their academy as well as being capped by his country at U20 level.
But he finally got his first taste of senior action in January when he joined Accrington Stanley on loan.
He made 18 appearances for them in League Two and there is no doubt that he will have plenty more offers after this display.
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