Tottenham boss Antonio Conte has spoken about how Richarlison can integrate into his team.

The Brazilian attacker is now fully fit after a post-World Cup issue had kept him out of action.

With Heung-min Son not in the best form of his Spurs career, Conte was asked if Richarlison could step up in that role instead.

He stated, “Yeah but also about this topic, before you [the media] said to me 'maybe Richarlison is pushing Son and Son is not performing well', if I don't remember wrongly. Now you're telling me exactly the opposite. (Laughs) I want to stay here to ask every question but sometimes I also have questions that are completely the opposite that you asked me some time ago. Maybe you say that Sonny struggled with the pressure of having a player like Richarlison behind.

“I repeat, they are different seasons. The players are human and he's a person. For sure if we talk about Sonny, last season he scored 25 goals. This season he's not scoring so much. For us it's not good news this because we count on his goals. But then we are talking about not robots, about a person, a human.

“I'm the first to hope that Sonny starts to score with the pressure or without the pressure of other players like Richarlison behind. This is football. We have to try to face, the players and the coaches, different situations, positive or negative. The most important thing I see during the training session and in the games is that Sonny tries to do his best.

“Sometimes the best it means that you go to score or make an assist, sometimes it means you're not so lucky to score or to make an assist."