B Team Head Coach Flemming Pedersen was pleased with the lessons his side were able to learn in a 5-2 defeat against Villarreal this afternoon.

The Bees matched the Spaniards for most of the game, until the heat and intensity became too much for them. The Yellows, very much used to the conditions, accelerated into the last 15 minutes and scored three quick goals.

Flemming told Bees Player after the game that he was glad his squad had opportunities to play teams from other leagues and learn from different styles.

"For us it was a fantastic game," he said. "With a lot of intensity. You had to play extremely quick to get out of their pressure.

"We struggled a lot at the start of the game but after 15 minutes we got into it and found our positions. We were more calm with the ball. It's a totally different way of playing football than we are used to in England, but a fantastic experience."

Justin Shaibu and Reece Cole scored a goal each to put pressure on Villarreal B, but in the end the Segunda Division B team's quality won out. Flemming admitted that the conditions certainly affected his own team.

"It was very hard because we are playing in 27-28 degrees and we are not used to it. We are playing against players that are two or three years older than us, in a team that plays in the third best league in Spain, so we were under a lot of pressure for the whole match, in and out of possession. In the end we didn't have enough, but up until 75 minutes it was 2-2 and an extremely good performance."

The B Team face Valencia's Under-19 squad on Friday evening, just two days away. Their Danish coach will have to look at his squad to see if changes are necessary before the next kick-off.

"I would like to keep the team ticking over but it depends on the players now and their fatigue tomorrow. Today we had four or five players that played the whole game and you could see some of them couldn't run in the last five minutes. That's the way you develop though, when you work to your limits. Not one of them, even Tom Field who has played Championship games, have ever played with this kind of tempo before."