Zonal Marking

[Percy McCarthy]

Can people please stop blaming zonal marking for our defensive woes. MON used it, with success, GH ditched it for some reason. I'm fed up of pointing this out every five minutes to people who keep going on about it.

Thank you.

[The Moose]

Whatever.

If it's zonal, we can't play it - if it's man-to-man, we can't play it,

There must be a third way....

[damon loves JT]

Zonal marking, eh? Tch. I think we should make the libero and the trequartista do it.

[WikiVilla]

The keeper is a factor here

[bertlambshank]

The keeper is a factor here

He his not, that's the problem.

[MonsXI]

I don't think it's a case of the marking more a case of how quickly the players are reacting to the set pieces, it just seems like we are in the right position but to slow to react.

[WikiVilla]

We are either allowing free headers or the 2nd ball to squirm free
It's basic schoolboy stuff and it is costing us week in week out

[The Moose]

Maybe it's because the defence changes every game, whether necessary or not. It does take time to build a rapport between defenders and keeper and to the midfield. Too many changes, especially with a lot of inexperienced players coming in, can't be good.

[MonsXI]

We are either allowing free headers or the 2nd ball to squirm free
It's basic schoolboy stuff and it is costing us week in week out

half the defence today aren't much more than schoolboys.

[steffo]

Rule 1 - Defence: Get there first............ simples..........

[gervilla]

We are either allowing free headers or the 2nd ball to squirm free
It's basic schoolboy stuff and it is costing us week in week out

half the defence today aren't much more than schoolboys.

Indeed, but whatever the personnel the end result is the same.
Stupid goals give away week in, week out.
Our inability to defend corners is gone beyond a joke.

[Percy McCarthy]

We were marking zonally the last few years, and were good at it. We are not now, and we see the result.

My point is people are blaming it every time we let one in from a set-piece and we're not using it.

GH should be pragmatic about it and ask the defenders to do what they're good at. Zonal marking.

[bob]

Zonal marking, eh? Tch. I think we should make the libero and the trequartista do it.

I'm fucking fed up to the back teeth of having to google words in your posts.

[KevinGage]

Pinched from another thread:

Andy Gray with his machines last season was adamant we were one of the better sides at defending set pieces because we were man-for-man and Liverpool struggled because they were going the fancy, continental zonal route.

Yet a few weeks back Laursen said we used to be zonal when he was at the club, but it looks like we've now gone man-to-man. Whether the OS got the wrong end of the stick I'm not sure, but I don't see how man-to-man marking can leave so many opponents unmarked - as it has done and countless times this season.

[bob]

Zonal marking, eh? Tch. I think we should make the libero and the trequartista do it.

Don't ever change.