What Régis Le Bris said ahead of Sunderland v Manchester United

Phil Smith discusses all the key headlines from today's pre-match press conference

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00:00Hi everyone, Phil here, just been speaking to Regis Labrice ahead of Sunderland's trip to Manchester United in Old Trafford this weekend.

00:07So, yeah, just thought I'd bring you to speed with the main headlines.

00:10Bit of chat this week that maybe there might be a little bit of an injury to Nordic Mukaili.

00:14Labrice kind of poured cold water on that, he said that Mukaili was fine and he expected him to play.

00:18So, I'm not envisaging many, if any, changes to the Sunderland XI, to be honest.

00:22I spoke about how impressed he'd been with Mukaili and Alderete's partnership.

00:26I can't see that being broken up any time soon.

00:28So, I think he talked a lot about the consistency that he feels the team has and how important that is.

00:33Made really clear that he's not underestimating Man Utd, how he, you know, the individual threats they have, especially at home.

00:39And the other point he made as well was he said he'd had a conversation with Granit Xhaka this week

00:42and how within the dressing room there's a feeling that all over this aspect of the game is something they're really proud of

00:47and really pleased with, mainly that defensive resilience.

00:49They still know there's a lot of areas where they can get better and they still have some weaknesses as a Premier League team.

00:53So, as you expect, no major headlines really at all.

00:56Everyone keeping very much grounded, not getting carried away by this good start.

01:01But, obviously, the squad in a really good place.

01:03A little bit of an update.

01:04La Breach did confirm that he expects that he's going to remain.

01:06Mundo and Denisek can still think that they're about a month away from returning.

01:09Certainly with Mundo, we knew that was pretty much the case.

01:12But, yeah, his comeback's sort of on the horizon.

01:14The international break will come at a good time.

01:15But I think there'll be a few games before we'll see him back in action.