Sunderland Head Coach Régis Le Bris has said that his players must “bring the crowd with us” as they face North East rivals Middlesbrough at the Stadium of Light on Saturday. Le Bris also spoke on how his process has been after the Black Cats’ first loss, and how controlling player’s temperament will be key against Boro.
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00:00The emotions after a defeat brought out a different side to Sunderland head coach Regis
00:06Lebris, but the Frenchman made clear that the process for him remains the same following
00:12any results in terms of analysing where he can make his team better.
00:16It's still the same process. For me, the emotion after a game is still dangerous because you
00:26are involved and sometimes you are happy and sometimes you are not happy. And the analysis,
00:33the deep analysis, the deep video analysis is very useful to understand what went wrong,
00:40especially during that game, and to identify the specific areas we need to develop. It
00:46was the case this week. And the involvement of the players during the, especially the
00:55two last sessions, was very interesting. So I hope that we will have some different,
01:07I think, behaviours from this new experience.
01:12Going into the clash with north-east neighbours Middlesbrough, Sunderland will need their
01:16crowd to be involved, putting emphasis on their attacking players to lift the noise
01:21inside the Stadium of Light.
01:24Yes, it's still useful to bring the crowd with us. So tactically, we can use some choices
01:36to have this support with us. It was the case at Plymouth, sometimes we had the possibility
01:44to run and to play in behind and then you can press, you can counter-press, you can
01:49create chances instead of keeping the ball. So this kind of choices can influence the
01:55balance of the momentum and the atmosphere in the Stadium. So it will be the case against
02:00Middlesbrough.
02:03This fixture has seen several red cards shown in recent times, so Lebris was asked whether
02:08keeping his players' temperament under control would be a deciding factor.
02:13I think we can control the emotion if we are focused on the game. So what we have to
02:21do, have we to do in possession, out of possession, in different moments of the game. It's a high
02:28press, it's a low press, it's a mid-press, the momentum is like that, so maybe we need
02:33to try this build-up instead of another build-up. And when we are focused on the game, I think
02:39we can solve this problem. But as it was the case at Plymouth, sometimes a specific
02:48event can change the rationality, I can say like that. So experience after experience,
02:55I hope it will be better against Middlesbrough.