Spurs 1-1 Barca

On Friday night, Spurs held European champions and treble titleists Barcelona to a 1-1 draw in front of 57,000 excited fans at Wembley.

On Sunday, Spurs will face Tony Mowbray's Celtic, who hammered Egyptian side Al-Ahly in the inaugural friendly tournament's opening match eralier on Friday.

Spurs were missing Ledley King, Johnathan Woodgate and Michael Dawson in defence and Darren Bent and Roman Pavlyuchenko in attack all to injury - and also Giovani Dos Santos, who is competing in the CONCACAF Gold Cup for Mexico.

Redknapp put his faith in Huddlestone and Corluka at centre back, while Hutton made a rare start at right back. A 4-5-1 formation meant Lennon (right), Modric (in the hole) and O'Hara (left) supporting the diminutive Defoe in attack.

Barcelona brought Henry and Messi on tour but neither featured, as boss Pep Guardiola decided to let his academy players take centre stage. The only recognisable starters were Toure Yaya, Boja Krkic and Eidur Gudjohnsen.

Barcelona started off the match playing with more fluency than Spurs as they bossed possession. But there was little to worry about for Spurs' defence for the opening thirty minutes.

That was until Toure skipped two tackles to inadvertently set up Bojan in front goal in the 31st minute. A secind goal should have followed shortly thereafter, only for the linesman to wrongly flag Pedro Rodriguez offside.

Despite Luka Modric hitting the bar and Benoit Assou-Ekotto forcing a save from Jorquera within seconds of each other, Spurs were being harried off the ball by a hard-working and efficient Barca outfit.

Therefore, with Barca fielding an entirely different eleven after the break, Redknapp decided to bring on Robbie Keane and move Tom Huddlestone into midfield at the expense of Hutton, with Corluka shifting to right back. This seemed to give Spurs more momentum as Modric and Huddlestone's influence gradually grew.

Modric broke up play and set a good tempo for Tottenham's forays into the opposition half, and Huddlestone displayed his full range of sublime passing skill to the pleasure of the hime fans.

However, Spurs looked to be heading to a rare pre-season defeat until 19 year-old substitute Jake Livermore beat the offside trap from a corner to flick Assou-Ekotto's prcise cross past the onrushing Pinto with seven minutes remaining to earn Spurs a point.

Redknapp will have been encouraged by the scoreline and by the performances of Modric and also substitutes Livermore and debutant Kyle Naughton - but will know that Spurs need to make major improvements before the curtain raiser against Liverpool at White Hart Lane a few weeks from now.