It was meant to be Stoke City's day, they were meant to drop into the Championship and start with a bang, showing the second-tier what they had become in their decade of top flight football.

Instead, they were no more than an extra in the Leeds United show, the walk-on part in another story entirely.

Instead of asserting dominance and setting themselves up for a title-winning season, they were met by the full force of the Bielsa effect.

Gary Rowett is no stranger to the level, but even he looked lost for ideas as Leeds gave them a lesson in how things should be done.

It won't always be like this, but for one afternoon in the early part of the season, Stoke turned up at someone else's party and then simply played the fall guy.

There will have been lessons, Gary Rowett must have taken something from the game, but they were simply second best in every department.

Here are three things we think we learnt about Stoke City after their opening day defeat....

Being the bookies favourites clearly means very little and they're going to have to put the hard yards in if they're getting back into the top flight at first attempt.

They certainly didn't exert the sort of pressure one might expect from a pre-season favourite.

Some might think it was complacency, but we suspect it is the increasingly small gap between the bottom of the Premier League and the top of the Championship, because that is where Leeds expect to be.

Etebo and N'Diaye, two of the big-name players in Stoke's midfield, were almost completely bypassed and had little or no bearing on the outcome of the game. even Jack Butland, another big name star, had a bit of a howler.

If those players remain at the club beyond this Thursday, they're going to need to be much better than they were yesterday.

Leeds won the midfield battle, that might have been the ineffective displays from the Stoke players, or it might have been the line up.

Is 4-3-3 the best set up for the players Monk has at his disposal? Stoke didn't look comfortable with it yesterday afternoon and perhaps there might be a rethink for the visit of Brentford next weekend.