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Tottenham defender Doherty happy with double for victory over Motherwell

Tottenham defender Matt Doherty was happy with his double in their friendly win against Motherwell.

Spurs won 4-0 yesterday with Doherty scoring twice.

"It was just nice to get the shirt back on and get back out there. We played well, took the game seriously and we pressed how we wanted to press and didn't give them any real chances to start the game well. We were on top from the start so it was quite enjoyable and I managed to be in the right place twice," Doherty said in a post-match interview on SpursPlay.

"[This kind of break] hasn't happened before but we were only off for two weeks, so it's not like we lost a lot of fitness or sharpness. We're obviously training hard again as if it's a mini pre-season to try and improve and get even better at that.

"We're taking it as if it we did in pre-season. Whatever they tell us to do we're going to work hard and try and get better as we know we've got a game in two weeks against Brentford that we need to be ready for for the second half of the season. We took the two weeks off, we took the rest and come back and taken training very seriously."

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