Only backside membership Wolves and Nottingham Forest have scored fewer targets than Sunderland this season.
The proven fact that the Black Cats have the joint fourth greatest defensive record within the league means the battle for targets hasn’t been a significant challenge, nevertheless it’s one thing that Le Bris is working to handle.
Indeed, solely this week Le Bris and the teaching employees sat down with Granit Xhaka and mentioned at size with the captain Sunderland’s development this season and the areas that want work.
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Sunderland host Brighton this weekend seeking to bounce again from their FA Cup defeat at Port Vale and to increase their unbeaten Premier League run to 3 video games.
But the Black Cats have solely scored greater than a single goal in a sport on one event of their final 9 outings.
Brian Brobbey is in rivalry to return this weekend, which is a significant enhance given the Dutchman tops the Sunderland scoring charts. But Le Bris says the seek for extra targets would not simply come all the way down to the attackers.
“It’s obviously a concern because we want to improve every area, and this is not the best one for sure,” he mentioned.
“But it isn’t solely concerning the attacking gamers, it is concerning the squad. You can rating on set-pieces as effectively.
“The midfielders can rating as a result of they’ll shoot from outdoors the field, for instance.
“It’s a full process and it’s not only one responsibility of one player, it’s about the full squad.”
He added: “It’s probably the most troublesome a part of the sport, to attain.
“It’s at all times onerous to discover a solution to rating. Sometimes it is only a query of dynamic.
“You struggle for a long period and you never know how or why but confidence can come back.”
While Sunderland have loved an distinctive first season again within the Premier League, they continue to be a piece in progress, says Le Bris, who was eager to supply a reminder that their squad accommodates loads of younger and comparatively inexperienced gamers, with a number of enjoying for the primary time within the English prime flight.
He mentioned: “We had a very good dialog with Granit this week, as a result of he is actually skilled.
“We spoke concerning the totally different areas that we’re creating now. So out of possession at Leeds and Bournemouth we have been wonderful, the best way we pressed the opponent, our mid-block was good, our deep block was good.
“We repeated this season this type of performances out of possession.
“Our build-up is getting higher as effectively and the development section is obvious when now we have our key gamers, as a result of it is at all times linked.
“But the ultimate attacking third is probably the most troublesome, and right here now we have good rules with our triangles, our large triangles, for instance, however they have not performed quite a bit collectively as a result of we modified typically.
“The triangles on the left, for instance, we had Rei [Reinildo] generally with Enzo [Le Fee] and Noah [Sadiki], then Rei and Noah went to AFCON.
“So this circulation is difficult to attain and once we change all the pieces and infrequently it is onerous to seek out the suitable steadiness. It was the identical on the suitable aspect. We began with Bertrand [Traore], a mature participant, Nordi [Mukiele] and Habib [Diarra], however then Habib was injured.
“So we did not have nice consistency in these relationships, and that helps.
“And then our three strikers have different style of play so we struggled to find consistency as well. It’s an ongoing process and we want to get better and find solutions.”
