Manchester City midfielder Gareth Barry feels that last night's Champions League debut will serve as a good learning curve for the club.
City managed a 1-1 draw with fellow competition newcomers Napoli and Barry says that perhaps they cannot go out and play they free-rolling style they produce in the domestic league when coming up against quality European opposition.
"There are a lot of things we have learned. It was a different style of game to what we are used to in the Premier League," Barry said.
"We have started the Premier League very well but this is a different style of game, it just doesn't happen like that.
"The first few games we have maybe been a lot more open than we were last season but it is the team the manager sends out.
"There are a lot of attacking players out there and now and again you can get picked off on the break.
"We got exactly the sort of game we expected; they defended very well and we knew about their counter-attacking style.
"When they got a chance they broke in numbers and very quickly. We'll look back at the video but there are things we can learn.
"On another day we could have put three or four past them and it would have been a different game.
"But we have to be wary of attacking in numbers as we do at home and we are going to have to adapt from the way we play in the Premier League because it is a completely different game."
