All Whites coach Danny Hay is focusing on the positives, after his team failed to win a game on their two-game European tour.
Last week, New Zealand lost to Ireland 3-1, while on Monday (NZ time), an experimental second-string side lost to Lithuania 1-0.
The tour marked the start of a new era for the All Whites - Hay's first series in charge of the national side - ending a run of over 500 days without a match.
During the two games, Hay gave seven players their debuts, while 14 of the 24 players selected had 10 caps or less before the tour began.
Most of those inexperienced players featured against Lithuania at LFF Stadium in Vilnius.
Although Hay downplayed the importance of the result before the match, Lithuania outplayed New Zealand, as they celebrated their first win since March 2018.
Hay will now spend time assessing the talent at his disposal, before plotting New Zealand's path to the 2022 World Cup.
"I've made it clear we need to look longer term, and start preparing for 2022 and beyond," he said. "These are friendlies and opportunities to find out more about our players.
"Some of the young guys stepped up, but everyone will learn a lot from this. The players will have a better picture of what we require from them.
"There are so many positives to come from this, I'm disappointed with the result [against Lithuania], but that wasn't the focus for these two matches.
"It was about bringing the team together to see where they're at."
Hay is also looking ahead to the next international window in March and while the All Whites don't have any games scheduled yet, they hope to organise two more fixtures.
"We'll look at tonight's game and make some decisions with who we think fits our system for the March window.
"There are players outside of the group that didn't travel that will come into consideration.
"We're missing the likes of Kosta [Barbarousus], and even tonight without Chris Wood, Winston Reid and Ryan Thomas, who are back at their clubs."
In the Lithuania match, the young All Whites side took time to settle and had two great chances to score in the first half, but couldn't convert.
Arvydas Novikovas' stunning strike from outside the box was ultimately the difference between the two sides.
"I felt we were struggling to maintain possession and get any incisive play happening," Hay said.
"I thought Marco Rojas, at times, really showed his quality and Bill Tuiloma was outstanding as well.
"The whole idea was to give everybody a really good opportunity, and see whether they were a good fit in terms of character and mentality, ability on the pitch and the way we want to play.
"We want to sit down and review the footage, and I'm certain we'll have a clear idea of how we'll move forward from this."
