| Zonal marking 18:19 - Dec 29 with 2397 views | Jackfath |
Surely this only works if your 'keeper is able to command his box, come and collect crosses etc.
It needs to be scrapped, clearly we aren't up to it. |  |
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| Zonal marking on 14:07 - Dec 30 with 454 views | jasper_T |
| Zonal marking on 10:04 - Dec 30 by ItchySphincter |
We've never expected the opposition to score every time they get the opportunity to cross, until now. [Post edited 30 Dec 2018 12:08]
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A couple of seasons in the Prem I definitely did. |  | | |
| Zonal marking on 14:11 - Dec 30 with 452 views | jasper_T |
| Zonal marking on 10:46 - Dec 30 by A_Fans_Dad |
Yes it really worked for Arsenal against Liverpool didn't it.
Good teams and players exploit those very zones either by putting the ball there or running into those spaces.
On set pieces how many times do you see players on the posts and on the goal line save goals, the other point is attackers make some of the best defenders because they attack the Ball coming in instead of watching a zone or a man, Bony used to be superb at doing so and Llorente wasn't bad either. |
Attacking the ball is what you're supposed to do in a zonal system.
Bony headed balls out by standing in a zone. The posts are zones. | | | |
| Zonal marking on 16:18 - Dec 30 with 428 views | A_Fans_Dad |
| Zonal marking on 14:11 - Dec 30 by jasper_T |
Attacking the ball is what you're supposed to do in a zonal system.
Bony headed balls out by standing in a zone. The posts are zones. |
By that standard the whole field is a zone, which it is, but you can't mark it all and we don't mark posts either, whether we are defending or attacking.
The point I was making was that we currently do not attack the ball, we try and watch a man or out jump him, whereas we should be concentrating on the ball's flight. | | | |
| Zonal marking on 16:47 - Dec 30 with 422 views | jasper_T |
| Zonal marking on 16:18 - Dec 30 by A_Fans_Dad |
By that standard the whole field is a zone, which it is, but you can't mark it all and we don't mark posts either, whether we are defending or attacking.
The point I was making was that we currently do not attack the ball, we try and watch a man or out jump him, whereas we should be concentrating on the ball's flight. |
A better zonal system would be nice, yeah.
There must be something to leaving men off the posts as so many teams do it, but personally I'd have one reasonable-sized bloke on the back stick every time (no midgets or Shelveys who can't jump). | | | |
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