Sunderland boss Regis Le Bris has been chatting with the media earlier than Monday’s Premier League sport in opposition to on the Stadium of Gentle (kick-off 20:00 GMT).
Listed here are the important thing strains from his information convention:
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On the necessary function captain Granit Xhaka performs in making team-mates consider they will compete within the Premier League: “He leads by instance and provides this religion and hope. Once we play away in opposition to Chelsea he believes we will win and he reveals it. He tells it – within the dressing room and all over the place. So that you need to consider that it is potential, you need to comply with him.”
On empowering his gamers: “As a coach you do not need to be the principle man. That’s not my function. I need to give data, energy and accountability to the squad. We’ve gamers on the pitch to handle micro conditions. We’re bettering our degree and are actually in a position to be extra proactive, versatile and adaptive to resolve and repair issues and to measurement up alternatives as nicely.”
Opponents Everton are “doing nicely” and are “a very good instance” for Sunderland: “They’re a bit inconsistent however with the flexibility to attain and to win in opposition to everybody, I feel.”
Why David Moyes struggled throughout his time as Sunderland supervisor: “Typically you’ve got totally different successes and generally you wrestle and should take care of totally different challenges. From his background and profession, if you happen to keep at that degree you’ll want to have qualities and I feel that’s the case.”
On competing within the Premier League: “It is the most effective league on this planet. I take pleasure in each sport. I benefit from the managers. I benefit from the stadiums, I take pleasure in all the pieces. We all know the dynamic is admittedly optimistic. Consistency might be the principle phrase. You might be aggressive over a brief interval however over the total league is completely totally different. So this shall be our subsequent problem.”
On Sunderland’s goal: “It is necessary to be on 17 factors. We’ve this goal in our thoughts. If we will get to that stage early it’s a lot better, however we do not know the longer term on the minute.”
On being fourth and a goal for Premier League opponents: “I do not assume any opponent up to now thought it was simple to win in opposition to a Premier League crew. If you’re on this a part of the desk, the opponent begins to assume they need to be actually conscious and alert that it will likely be powerful. So we are going to see.”
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