Motherwell manager Alfred Johansson wants his players to take learnings from their Conference League play-off against Freiburg.
Johansson's side scored inside 90 seconds in Thursday's first leg at Fir Park before falling to a 3-1 defeat.
It leaves Motherwell with a sizeable task in Germany next week, but after aggregate wins against Torshavn and HJK, Johansson believes their European campaign has been a productive one.
"They can learn so much because when you train something, whatever it is, and then at some point you face a new level, you have to do everything a little bit better," he said.
"Whether you play the guitar or chess or football, you have to do everything just a little bit better. You need to think a little bit faster, you need to decide faster, you need to execute technically with more quality, you need to move faster.
"And when you put the body into that, you will adapt. And that intensity and that level of difficulty and all of the actions that the players have done, if you go out and you do nothing and you just don't evolve yourself, you learn nothing.
"But if you go on and you try to do what we did, then that intensity and quality and everything, it sticks in your body, in your nervous system, and it's going to stay there.
"As long as you realise that that's how it works, then you will keep it and we will profit from it in the coming months, 100 per cent."
Motherwell revealed before the game they had been fined more than €20,000 so far in their European campaign.
Uefa has now issued some of the decisions relating to those fines. Motherwell were fined €4,000 (about £3,425) over blocked passageways in their home leg against HB and €15,000 (about £12,850) following a pitch invasion after they took the lead in Helsinki.
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