Sunderland will learn and “consolidate” following difficult period

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Sunderland Head Coach Régis Le Bris has made clear that his squad will learn from the experiences of their recent tricky run of results, and will be improved as a result. Daniel Wales reports.

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00:00The wet and windy conditions posed by Storm Darragh did not dampen Sunderland's spirits

00:06on Saturday as they came from behind to beat Stoke City at the Stadium of Light and finally

00:11claim a win that has evaded them for some time in the Championship, seeing them lose

00:15top spot in the league and begin to start playing catch up.

00:20On Tuesday, they faced Bristol City, who at the weekend lost disappointingly to relegation

00:24threatened Portsmouth, despite having won handsomely against Plymouth the week before.

00:29With their head coach Liam Manning, their football is attacking and expansive and they

00:33will look to pose a threat to Sunderland going forward.

00:38Could this style from the Robins play into Sunderland's hands however, given how good

00:43the Blackhats have been in pressing teams high?

00:46So far I didn't feel that any team was passive against us and they always try to play, to

00:57create chances and you can have probably during the game 10 minutes, 20 minutes when

01:05we have to face a low block but it was open so far, even at home.

01:10So I like it and I think Bristol tomorrow will try to win and this is I think the mindset

01:18of the league.

01:20So the games are still open and we try to play like that as well so I hope it will be

01:28a positive game for both teams.

01:32The win against Stoke was several weeks in the making and therefore Lebris was asked

01:36whether the victory was a reward for their endeavours.

01:40Yes I think so.

01:41My main focus with the team was a little bit tactical but more about the team behaviour,

01:48especially during this period and it shows that we are improving a lot from a game management

02:00I think perspective and it's not the easiest one because with young teams you want to be

02:09rewarded very quickly and when it's not the case you can become frustrated, upset, angry

02:16and it's very contagious and one can be like that and the other one second later and so

02:22on and so on.

02:23At the end the flow of the team becomes very low and it's like a broken dynamic and they

02:31kept this positive energy until the end so it's good news for us.

02:36Lebris was also keen to share how proud he was of his young side for going through the

02:40difficult patch and coming out the other side of it with a win.

02:45Yes, it was the scenario of the last weeks.

02:51I hope they learned from this experience and we have to consolidate.

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