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Ange Postecoglou will lead Tottenham Hotspur in his fourth pre-season match just over 48 hours after their third as they take on Barcelona.

Spurs will face the Catalan giants in the Joan Gamper Trophy match at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys as Xavi's Barcelona play their first home game away from the Camp Nou, which is being redeveloped. It is the first football match to be played at the stadium in 14 years.

With Tottenham having only just played Shakhtar Donetsk on Sunday afternoon, beating the Ukrainian side 5-1 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with most players getting 90 minutes of action, Postecoglou will have to change things around.

"We've got training tomorrow (Monday), we'll probably change the whole team for Tuesday night," said Postecoglou in a club interview after Sunday's win. "It will be a good hit-out for us, a good challenge [as] playing Barcelona away is always a tough challenge.

"It's a great opportunity for us again to try and implement and a lot of the guys who will play on Tuesday night have had strong pre-seasons, so I'm looking forward to having them out there. Then we prepare for Sunday. We'll get back from Barcelona and we have a good sort of lead into Sunday's game.

"Brentford away will be a tough encounter and, apart from people asking me about Harry Kane on a daily basis, that will be my week, mate."

All those looking for Kane to start after the latest rejected bid from Bayern Munich are likely to be disappointed as the England captain played 80 minutes against Shakhtar, scoring four goals, and could be limited to only some action or none at all.

Richarlison had a knock which meant he missed the match on Sunday, but the Brazilian is expected to be fit to play against Barcelona.

Postecoglou could decide to keep Guglielmo Vicario in goal to give him further experience of playing with the Tottenham defenders in front of him and the Spurs boss will have to decide which members of the back four, particularly in central defence, line up there.

Yves Bissouma is expected to play a big part for Postecoglou this season and his absence against Shakhtar may well have been to give him a leading role and some experience in the middle of the park for Spurs on Tuesday evening.

With Micky van de Ven and Alejo Veliz yet to sign officially, their presence on the trip is unlikely with the squad flying out on Tuesday morning.

Here is the Tottenham team we reckon Postecoglou will select:

(4-3-3) Vicario; Porro, Sanchez, Dier, Reguilon; Bissouma, Skipp, Lo Celso; Solomon, Richarlison, Perisic.