Regis Le Bris has spoken about what to expect from a "difficult" Swansea challenge, how he's trying to rectify Sunderland's problems in front of goal and how the team need to manage the packed festive schedule.
STYLE OF PLAY
"Swansea is a different team I think, because they like having the ball, they put high pressure on the ball carrier. It’ll be a tough game again, but with a different style of play, and new problems to solve. I’m really excited by that game, and the Norwich game, and so on. It’s still a new experience. We were dominant with the ball, and probably it will be a little bit different, so we’ll see how we will solve that problem.”
GOALSCORING ISSUES
“I think football is like that. Sometimes you can be very accurate, very clinical, and [then] you don’t know why for a long period maybe – it could last six or eight weeks, we don’t know – it’s different.”
KEEP CREATING CHANCES
“I think stability and consistency is still the key, because if we don’t create chances, I can be worried, and I have many other concerns, but at the minute we are still dominant in many different environments. It was at Millwall, at Sheffield (United), at home twice, and we created many chances without scoring a lot of goals, but the foundations are still strong. It’s always unpredictable, and the most difficult part of the pitch is still the final third, so keep going."
WORK HARD ON IT
"Probably we have to work a little more in this final third during the training sessions, to be more creative, to refine the game model, because if we can create chances, for me it’s the best point for a team.”
BUSY CHRISTMAS PERIOD
"If you want to be a top player in the sport, you know that you will have to manage 50 games per season, 55, even 60 games. Because the team is young, it’s like a new experience probably for many of them, but it’s not a big problem. The way to manage this period properly is always the same. You need to recover properly, so your lifestyle has to be the right one according to your objectives, and on the pitch you have to be efficient.”
