HARRY KANE was given some extra rest - as close pal Matt Doherty kept up his friendly hot streak against Nice’s familiar faces.
Striker Kane, 29, returned to Spurs training on Monday after a week’s holiday which followed England’s World Cup campaign that ended with his penalty agony .
The Three Lions went out at the quarter-final stage , losing to eventual finalists France but it was particularly tough on captain Kane as he ballooned a second-half spot-kick over the bar.
He was allowed to put his feet up here, having started every match in Qatar.
Whereas England team-mate Eric Dier , who only played a few minutes at the World Cup, came on as a sub against a Nice side boasting a number of ex-Premier League stars .
Kasper Schmeichel, Ross Barkley, Joe Bryan and Nicolas Pepe - on loan from Arsenal - were playing in black and red, though there was no Aaron Ramsey .
Former Chelsea and Everton man Barkley drew a smart early stop from Fraser Forster.
While Pepe received some pantomime booing for his connection to Tottenham’s arch-rivals.
Doherty has netted three goals in two exhibitions at the club’s training ground, bagging a brace against Motherwell and another versus Peterborough’s Under-21s.
The Irishman broke the deadlock here too, crashing in at Schmeichel’s near post after being teed up by Dejan Kulusevski.
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Doherty, 30, struggled for regular game time in the period before the World Cup as he battled back from a serious knee injury.
He has put in the hard yards during the mini ‘pre-season’ over the last six weeks, claiming the physical work Antonio Conte has put those left behind through has been even more gruelling than what they faced in actual pre-season.
The ex-Wolves wing-back said: “I can’t really explain the training any other way than it has just been tough. It has been like pre-season all over again. It feels like it has almost been worse this time around, mind.”;
The hard work certainly seemed to be paying off for him here.
Though Nice, bossed by Lucian Favre who once turned down Crystal Palace , levelled early in the second half through Antoine Mendy.
Former Bayern Munich defender Dante, 39, headed a corner against Doherty, allowing the ball to rebound to Mendy who found the net from 12 yards.
World Cup participants Dier, Ben Davies and Son Heung-min all came on after the break to warm applause from the 8,000 Spurs fans attending.
In the end, a winner could not be found, but it was still a decent workout before the stuff that matters starts up again at Brentford on Boxing Day.
