Coach Sergio Batista has made key changes from Diego Maradona's World Cup side for the match against Spain, who were crowned world champions in South Africa in July.
Batista, who played alongside Maradona in Argentina's 1986 Word Cup-winning side, is looking to stamp his authority on the team after their quarter-final elimination by Germany in Cape Town.
"In both national teams there are good ball players, attackers of a similar standard," Batista told reporters at Argentina's training camp last week.
"The style is similar. This Argentina could play like Spain, easily."
Inter Milan midfielder Esteban Cambiasso, recalled by Batista after being overlooked by Maradona, said: "(Batista's) idea is for the team to have that (Spanish) identity... holding possession as much time as possible.
"We have to try that, we have the players to achieve it. One shouldn't die before trying to play like Spain," he told reporters.
Batista looks set to hand a playmaking role to Andres D'Alessandro, who last month inspired his Brazilian side Internacional to victory in the Libertadores Cup and is back in an Argentina squad for the first time in five years.
Lionel Messi sees the match, part of the South American nation's bicentennial celebrations, as a chance to show off his country's footballing culture to his many Barcelona team mates in the Spain side.
"We have players who know him perfectly well but, however much you control or know him, he's capable of finding solutions to any problem he faces," Spain coach Vicente del Bosque said.
"He's an extraordinary player who, at the World Cup, without scoring a goal, showed he could have scored seven or eight in the group games," he told AM650 radio before Spain left Europe.
