The senior national football squad will have one more practice match before the final 18 to travel to Barbados are selected.

Technical director Neider Dos Santos said a 60-minute game against a club team is slated for this afternoon at the University of Guyana ground.

The match will give Dos Santos and his technical staff the chance to scrutinise their charges further, the technical director disclosed.

In the first practice game, the national side defeated a Georgetown Football League XI 2-0 with the goals being scored late in the second half.

Dos Santos said Goalkeeper Richard Reynolds was expected in Guyana yesterday afternoon.

Reynolds' inclusion will swell the squad to 29 members, which will be trimmed to 26 by tomorrow afternoon, one day before departing for Barbados.

According to Dos Santos, he will be in possession of two lists tomorrow afternoon. "I will have the lists of 18 players to travel to Barbados and the 26 to continue camp." Guyana play Barbados on Sunday in a friendly international in Bridgetown.

The Brazilian stressed that he is the sole selector of the team and no one else. "If someone else wants to pick the team then the same person has to coach it."

Sunday's friendly is expected to be the only international game for the locals before they tackle Grenada in the opening game of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers.

Guyana play Grenada on February 28 in the Spice Island while the return game is scheduled for the Blairmont ground on March 14.

Asked about improvement since being encamped, Dos Santos explained that he would be in a better position to gauge the squad's potential after the Barbados game.

"We are striving against time right now.

"I think that we will find out exactly where we are when we play Barbados."

He added that the overseas-based players are blending in nicely but stopped short of commenting on individual performances.

Strikers Randolph Jerome and Cary Harris and defenders Charles Pollard and Abassy McPherson arrived recently from Trinidad where they play professional football.