Antonio Conte is pleased Tottenham's Champions League campaign has begun with a victory.

Spurs claimed a 2-0 win over Marseille on Wednesday thanks to a late double from Richarlison.

Conte told BT Sport: "Today we expected a really tough game. Marseille are a physical team but with good quality. In the first half we lost a lot of duels. When you play against this type of team, really aggressive, it's important you can keep the ball. Second half we did this.

"Marseille are a good team. For us it was important to get the three points and start well in this competition. We need to take confidence. They were unbeaten this season.

"Richarlison is in good form. We have to play in two days against Manchester City. Now we have to try to rest and recover well. City played yesterday so have one day more to rest. In my opinion that's very important."