Sunderland Head Coach Régis Le Bris has expressed his willingness to learn about and understand Sunderland’s identity, having already started to in his short time on Wearside. He also spoke about figuring out teams who set up to frustrate Sunderland, and using a fluid midfield to help do that. Daniel Wales reports.
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00:00The Championship's Manager of the Month for August has certainly taken well to Wearside
00:07and outlined what he has learned in his short time there.
00:11Many things, I'm still learning and I think, as I said before, the identity is very strong
00:19and the identity of the region, the fans, the story and then the way we are linking
00:29this identity with the game model is very interesting here and I think we want to take
00:36risks, we want to be bold for example and when we play like that, for example, we can
00:42have high pressure in man for man and it's very risky sometimes and the public, the fans
00:48are very aware and passionate by this energy and then they can give us this energy in return.
00:56So this link is very interesting, I think.
01:00As league leaders, teams may now look to frustrate Sunderland and their high-intensity style,
01:05a challenge that Le Brice will be keen to overcome.
01:09It's still a question of adaptation and the pitch, so the scenario and the games are always
01:19different so the identity is not only high pressure, for example, you need to master
01:26all the phases, all the single moments of the game and maybe during one game, one single
01:32game, just one part of the game model will be very useful to win and the other parts
01:38are useful but not so important for that game.
01:41So for example, against Plymouth, I don't know the scenario before but maybe we'll have
01:46more situation with possession and counter-pressing and these two situations, moments of the game
01:56maybe will be more important in that game.
02:02Le Brice then revealed how he has developed his midfield to suit his system, allowing
02:07for fluid transitions during matches.
02:10Yes, we started with only one shape in defence, in possession and one shape out of possession
02:20to be very simple but when the team now, the players are mastering these shapes, we
02:29can introduce new elements because they are able now to reach the next layer.
02:41So experiences after experiences, we can introduce new concepts and from a single and
02:48simple start, if they are able to learn, to share the ideas together, we can go very, very far.