Sunderland’s Régis Le Bris sensing Championship opportunity

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Sunderland Head Coach Régis Le Bris has outlined that the opportunity is there for his side in the promotion race in the Championship. Daniel Wales reports.

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00:00The spirit at Sunderland Football Club this season was encapsulated in their

00:05win over regional rivals Middlesbrough on Monday night. Coming from behind to win

00:09on an emotionally charged evening highlighted where Reggie Celebrese's

00:12side are at currently and why they are still contenders for automatic

00:16promotion from the championship. Responding positively to setbacks has

00:21been key for Sunderland in periods this season, something which striker Wilson

00:26Isidor himself demonstrated with his goal at the Riverside Stadium following

00:30his two penalty misses in the away trip to Burnley that cost the Black Cats what

00:35would have been a huge win at Turf Moor. After the Borough win, Celebrese talked of

00:41resilience, something which he elaborated on further as a key theme of Sunderland's

00:46season. Yes it's very important and I think this event shows that there

00:55were no panic in their mind and it shows that they are confident with

01:02the way they can play, the way they can change the dynamic and even away at

01:09Middlesbrough they were confident because we knew that we are good to

01:15solve problems in real time. Maybe it should be better to start a little bit

01:20early because we can avoid maybe some early goals. The next step for Sunderland

01:26is to face fewer setbacks. Despite winning at Borough, the home side

01:30dominated the opening stages, something which Celebrese identified. Yeah we spoke

01:37a lot about the late stage of the game so I think we are good at Middlesbrough

01:43in this part of the game even if Dennis got a cramp just for the last

01:50action and Luke saved the situation but I think we were very good during

01:57this last 10 minutes and but now the question was the first 10 minutes so

02:04it's not just about us we have still an opponent and if they start well and I

02:10think Middlesbrough played a very good football during the first half it's

02:15difficult to face with it and sometimes you don't have the ball you can become a

02:19little bit impatient. The facts however are simple Sunderland are just three

02:24points away from the automatic promotion places and Lebris is sensing an

02:28opportunity. Yeah sure I think all the players are ambitious and they know what

02:37they want to do in that league but at the same time as a manager and as a

02:41coach my only focus is to win the next game and they know that so after that

02:47we'll see in 16 games where we are but at the same time we know we have good

02:54qualities we are competitive in that league so keep pushing and we'll see at

02:58the end

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