{"id":405595,"date":"2011-04-28T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/sunderland-boss-steve-bruce-delighted-with-progress-of-stephane-sessegnon\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T19:24:00","slug":"sunderland-boss-steve-bruce-delighted-with-progress-of-stephane-sessegnon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/sunderland-boss-steve-bruce-delighted-with-progress-of-stephane-sessegnon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland boss Steve Bruce delighted with progress of Stephane Sessegnon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Phil Haigh<\/h3>\n<h4>28 Apr 2011 20:24:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"89.451568895\">\n<div readability=\"13.4031413613\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ligue 1 : Stephane Sessegnon (Paris SG)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/8f1559f861350_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ligue 1 : Stephane Sessegnon (Paris SG)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"9.39907550077\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/537\/sunderland\">Sunderland<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/2844\/steve-bruce\">Steve Bruce<\/a> has expressed his delight with the impact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/benin\/12492\/st%C3%A9phane-sessegnon\">Stephane Sessegnon<\/a> has made at the Stadium of Light since his arrival despite him being forced into the first-team earlier than planned.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce had hoped to ease the Benin international in slowly but the Black Cats&#8217; horrific injury list gave him no other option but to throw him in at the deep end, and the former Wigan manager is pleased with how Sessegnon has responded.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the <em>Sunderland Echo<\/em> Bruce said: &#8220;If we\u2019d had everybody fit and everyone singing and dancing, I would probably have just introduced him now so he could have had time to get used to the culture.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe\u2019s been living in a hotel for four months for a start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut he\u2019s just coming out of his shell a little bit. As soon as he scored against Wigan, I thought he was sensational up front for the next 25 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe\u2019s introverted as a boy, but to see a smile on his face was terrific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think he\u2019s played well in a lot of games and I think he\u2019ll be a big player for us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was thought by most that Sessegnon was signed as a central midfielder, but Sunderland&#8217;s striker crisis will see him pushed to a much more advanced role, and he is set to form an unusual partnership with Steed Malbranque against Fulham on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bruce continued: &#8220;I\u2019ve got to find a position for him, in France, their attacking players all play off the frontman so he always wants to come for the ball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut this week we\u2019ve been looking at playing him as an out-and-out frontman because he\u2019s got blistering pace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe may need to change our style a little bit to suit him. Sessegnon and Malbranque will give teams a different problem, maybe not physically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe might have to play very differently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut it might force people to run forward from midfield, like Jack Colback and Jordan Henderson did against Wigan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/8f1559f861350_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/28\/2462064\/sunderland-boss-steve-bruce-delighted-with-progress-of\" title=\"Sunderland boss Steve Bruce delighted with progress of Stephane Sessegnon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland boss Steve Bruce delighted with progress of Stephane Sessegnon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Phil Haigh 28 Apr 2011 20:24:00 Ligue 1 : Stephane Sessegnon (Paris SG) Related Links Teams Players Sunderland manager Steve Bruce has expressed his delight with the impact Stephane Sessegnon has made at the Stadium of Light since his arrival despite him being forced into the first-team earlier than planned. Bruce had hoped to ease the Benin international in slowly but the Black Cats&#8217; horrific injury list gave him no other option but to throw him in at the deep end, and the former Wigan manager is pleased with how Sessegnon has responded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":405596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-405595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sunderland boss Steve Bruce delighted with progress of Stephane Sessegnon - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/sunderland-boss-steve-bruce-delighted-with-progress-of-stephane-sessegnon\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sunderland boss Steve Bruce delighted with progress of Stephane Sessegnon - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Phil Haigh 28 Apr 2011 20:24:00 Ligue 1 : Stephane Sessegnon (Paris SG) Related Links Teams Players Sunderland manager Steve Bruce has expressed his delight with the impact Stephane Sessegnon has made at the Stadium of Light since his arrival despite him being forced into the first-team earlier than planned. 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