The 30 seconds that teased Ange's Spurs revolution

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If Tottenham fans needed immoderate grounds of however Australian manager Ange Postecoglou is acceptable to shingle up their world, a 30-second clip from a pre-season nonaccomplishment to Barcelona showed it all.

The Australian's squad wrapped up its pre-season with a 4-2 nonaccomplishment to the Spanish giants successful the Joan Gamper Trophy, but erstwhile again showed that the dour benignant of play seen nether the likes of Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte is good and genuinely a happening of the past.

Despite fielding a second-string broadside with the likes of skipper Harry Kane and prima winger Son Heung-min rested, Spurs led a mostly full-strength Barcelona broadside for the bulk of the nighttime earlier precocious goals to Ferran Torres, Ansu Fati and Abde Ezzalzouli sealed the triumph for the Spanish side.

It has already been evident successful the pre-season that the unwatchable Spurs sides from erstwhile seasons are a distant memory, with Postecoglou getting the squad playing a overmuch much expansive benignant of shot contempt the extremity result of matches.

Davinson Sanchez was calm nether unit arsenic helium was pressed by Robert Lewandowski, arsenic Spurs passed themselves retired of occupation (Twitter)

The play successful question began with Spurs holding a 2-1 pb 5 minutes into the 2nd half.

Davinson Sanchez, goalscorer Oliver Skipp and Erik Dier were penned into their ain container arsenic 4 Barcelona players surrounded them with an assertive press, lone for the Spurs trio to signifier a triangle arsenic they whipped passes astir would-be tacklers earlier getting retired of danger.

However, conscionable getting retired of information wasn't capable for Postecoglou's men, who caught Barcelona precocious up the transportation and turned defence into onslaught successful a substance of seconds.

Although it didn't effect successful a nonstop goal, the play showed a glimpse of what the Aussie manager volition bring to the English Premier League this season.

Spurs ended the lucifer with 14 shots connected goal, adjacent to Barcelona, and had 44 per cent of the ball. Many teams this play volition conflict to travel distant with those kinds of numbers against the Catalan giants connected their location patch.

Ange Postecoglou's Spurs broadside gave Xavi's first-choice Barcelona line-up a tally for their wealth (Pedro Salado via Getty Images)

"The archetypal fractional was excellent. They got the extremity but our effect to that was excellent," Postecoglou said post-game, per football.london.

"The full archetypal fractional we played immoderate truly bully football, pressed them and you could spot they were uncomfortable. I thought the lads were outstanding. We conscionable ran retired of legs successful the 2nd half. We had a batch of guys retired determination who this was their archetypal 90 minutes astatine this intensity.

"It was my determination not to marque excessively galore substitutions contiguous and to permission guys astatine location due to the fact that I consciousness with pre-season the mode it has been we are a mates of games short. It outgo america successful the extremity but successful presumption of the effort the players gave maximum and that is each you tin inquire for."

Spurs' show successful the nonaccomplishment besides caught the oculus of section newspapers successful Barcelona.

"Barcelona recovered an assertive Tottenham," wrote Joan Poqui successful the Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona's biggest sports newspaper.

"They dominated the crippled aft Lewandowski's aboriginal extremity and were precise accordant contempt playing without galore archetypal prime players."

Postecoglou volition marque his managerial debut successful the Premier League connected Saturday 11pm AEST erstwhile his Spurs instrumentality connected Brentford astatine the Gtech Community Stadium.

Spurs person a accidental to get disconnected to a accelerated commencement successful the archetypal period with a location clash against Manchester United connected August 20 the lone lucifer featuring an hostile that finished wrong the apical six past season.

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