Zonal Marking

[ManxRed]

Looking forward to SKY showing endless repeats of Sami's goal last night to demonstrate how crap man-to-man marking is from set pieces...

 

[Eiler99]

Marking is crap.

 

End of.

[alias75]

Also considering how tired the Arsenal players have looked the last few weeks i wonder if rotation is the way to go?

[billz]

Also considering how tired the Arsenal players have looked the last few weeks i wonder if rotation is the way to go?

 

Marking is just plain stupid; 10 men on the line. Has to be a special goal to beat that!

[Nerik]

Well said Manx. Free heder for Sami. I am sure Robbie "players score goals not zones" Earle will have a good reason as to why it happened.

[fyds]

Well said Manx. Free heder for Sami. I am sure Robbie "players score goals not zones" Earle will have a good reason as to why it happened.

Funnily enough when watching that at 3am, he chose to gloss over that bit

Edited April 9, 2008 by fyds

[Mikey]

Both systems work well if the players due their duties properly.

 

Senderos was woeful for the corner, if he'd been ours we'd have slated him on here - still a marvelous header though.

Edited April 9, 2008 by Mikey

[johngibo YPC]

Marking is just plain stupid; 10 men on the line. Has to be a special goal to beat that!

 

Sami's would of!!!!!

[Guest Raisbeck]

Both systems have their flaws, just feels like zonal is always picked on because the media seem to focus on it whenever we concede a goal.

 

We must have one of the best defencive records in Europe over the past 4 years and that is partly to do with zonal marking! Bizarre that it gets such bad press.

[Tyler]

Strachan explained the system perfectly last week and explained why it failed for their goal

 

its about holding your nerve he said and not getting drawn out of your zone

 

 

its downfall is that zonal marking can be vulnerable to a ball to edge of area

 

btw - we were playing a combination of zonal and man marking last night

a few times hyypia and aurelio swapped zones depending on proximity of arsenal players

[Guest Raisbeck]

Strachan explained the system perfectly last week and explained why it failed for their goal

 

its about holding your nerve he said and not getting drawn out of your zone

its downfall is that zonal marking can be vulnerable to a ball to edge of area

 

btw - we were playing a combination of zonal and man marking last night

a few times hyypia and aurelio swapped zones depending on proximity of arsenal players

 

We have also looked a bit vunerable with runners into the box as often our defenders are very static - still its a system that has us where we are today.

 

We aint 4th in the league because of our defence.

[Rory Fitzgerald]

Looking forward to SKY showing endless repeats of Sami's goal last night to demonstrate how crap man-to-man marking is from set pieces...

 

 

Man-marking, is that what you call it

 

Someone should have told Senderos, the lad afforded both Hyypia and Torres the feedom of the area for their goals, god bless him though

[fyds]

Both systems have their flaws, just feels like zonal is always picked on because the media seem to focus on it whenever we concede a goal.

 

We must have one of the best defencive records in Europe over the past 4 years and that is partly to do with zonal marking! Bizarre that it gets such bad press.

'Zonal marking' is the work of dirty, under-hand nasty little foriegners though, coming over here with their 'tactics' and strange formations - have they never heard of 'kick and rush' and 'blind panic at the back'?....

[Senrab_nhoj]

Strachan explained the system perfectly last week and explained why it failed for their goal

 

its about holding your nerve he said and not getting drawn out of your zone

its downfall is that zonal marking can be vulnerable to a ball to edge of area

 

btw - we were playing a combination of zonal and man marking last night

a few times hyypia and aurelio swapped zones depending on proximity of arsenal players

 

We were lining up four in strict zonal areas along the six yard line for corners with a line of three adjusting to the players around them but maintaining a line 2/3 yards further out... would say it was interesting to watch but I'd be lying

[Cunny]

We actually man marked on corners last night.

[MFletcher]

I think we had a combination of both.

 

We had two out at the corner to prevent the short option, four in a line on the six yard box and the rest tracking runners into the box.

[_00_deathscar]

We actually man marked on corners last night.

 

It wasn't all out man marking though - we were lined up two cohorts of zonal and man.

[Guz]

Yesterday was a great example of how following your man and not looking at the ball even once during a corner is a f***ing s***house and crap thing to do. More often than not it leads to a foul on the attacker which is rarely given but thankfully our Sami had too much nouse for Senderos. He (sami) got in some good positions from set pieces in the first leg too.

[John am Rhein]

Both systems have their flaws, just feels like zonal is always picked on because the media seem to focus on it whenever we concede a goal.

 

It's the A.L.A.

[Cunny]

I think we had a combination of both.

 

We had two out at the corner to prevent the short option, four in a line on the six yard box and the rest tracking runners into the box.

 

yeah, that's a fair comment.

Still, a little bit of a compromise from Rafa.

[billz]

Sami's would of!!!!!

 

that's why you don't buy useless short-a**e players like fabregas