He could do with John Terry is a defensive coach.
comment by BlueJ2 (U4630)
posted 56 seconds ago
He could do with John Terry is a defensive coach.
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AMEN TO THAT! I can't remember a proper team doing the zonal marking and being successful. There might be one but its just not chelsea...
I'm pretty sure that statistics show that zonal marking has a less goals conceded than man marking. Of course, most teams do some sort of mix which works best
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Ok, But there are a lot of people standing and not trying to stop the run of the attackers. whats with that. 7 Goals we have conceded from set pieces. thats a lot of goals
I don't like it, I never have, maybe because I am old school. I was gna do an article about it recently myself because even before tonight I had noticed that in every single game this season, we look so vulnerable at every set piece we concede. We have already come unstuck far too many times this season for my liking.
For me I don't care about the statistics, a space on a pitch never scores a goal but a man standing in a space does and if the man goes somewhere else on the field then that is clearly where you should be to combat that threat.
When the legendary talent that is Jimmy Greaves left Chelsea and ended up at Spurs for many years, in all that time I believe he only ever scored against us on 2 occasions and the only reason for that is that Ron Harris used to be earmarked to man mark him every time. If Greavsie went off the field to the toilet then Chopper would go in the cubicle with him. If a stellar talent (that freely scored against anybody and everybody else in huge amounts) like that can be kept quiet, by simply designating somebody to stick to him like glue then that'll do for me.
With man-marking everyone only has the one job to do, with zonal marking the responsibility can transfer to someone else very quickly and the speed at which things can happen means that misunderstandings are almost a bye-product of it.
You have to put your best defenders on the shoulders of the best attackers man-for-man and put a couple of smaller players in zonally, to cut out bad corners, to impede runners, pick up loose balls etc. It's how it's always been done.
Get Rudi back...that'd help, he won't be standing for that sort of thing
comment by Eric_Draven (U20260)
posted 1 hour, 27 minutes ago
You have to put your best defenders on the shoulders of the best attackers man-for-man and put a couple of smaller players in zonally, to cut out bad corners, to impede runners, pick up loose balls etc. It's how it's always been done.
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Yeah that sounds about right to me. Everyone standing in a line several feet from the opposition attackers when a corner comes in like they did yesterday is basically a free hit for them. Definitely needs sorting out.
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posted on 2/10/19
He could do with John Terry is a defensive coach.
posted on 2/10/19
comment by BlueJ2 (U4630)
posted 56 seconds ago
He could do with John Terry is a defensive coach.
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AMEN TO THAT! I can't remember a proper team doing the zonal marking and being successful. There might be one but its just not chelsea...
posted on 2/10/19
I'm pretty sure that statistics show that zonal marking has a less goals conceded than man marking. Of course, most teams do some sort of mix which works best
posted on 2/10/19
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posted on 2/10/19
Ok, But there are a lot of people standing and not trying to stop the run of the attackers. whats with that. 7 Goals we have conceded from set pieces. thats a lot of goals
posted on 2/10/19
I don't like it, I never have, maybe because I am old school. I was gna do an article about it recently myself because even before tonight I had noticed that in every single game this season, we look so vulnerable at every set piece we concede. We have already come unstuck far too many times this season for my liking.
For me I don't care about the statistics, a space on a pitch never scores a goal but a man standing in a space does and if the man goes somewhere else on the field then that is clearly where you should be to combat that threat.
When the legendary talent that is Jimmy Greaves left Chelsea and ended up at Spurs for many years, in all that time I believe he only ever scored against us on 2 occasions and the only reason for that is that Ron Harris used to be earmarked to man mark him every time. If Greavsie went off the field to the toilet then Chopper would go in the cubicle with him. If a stellar talent (that freely scored against anybody and everybody else in huge amounts) like that can be kept quiet, by simply designating somebody to stick to him like glue then that'll do for me.
With man-marking everyone only has the one job to do, with zonal marking the responsibility can transfer to someone else very quickly and the speed at which things can happen means that misunderstandings are almost a bye-product of it.
posted on 3/10/19
You have to put your best defenders on the shoulders of the best attackers man-for-man and put a couple of smaller players in zonally, to cut out bad corners, to impede runners, pick up loose balls etc. It's how it's always been done.
posted on 3/10/19
Get Rudi back...that'd help, he won't be standing for that sort of thing
posted on 3/10/19
comment by Eric_Draven (U20260)
posted 1 hour, 27 minutes ago
You have to put your best defenders on the shoulders of the best attackers man-for-man and put a couple of smaller players in zonally, to cut out bad corners, to impede runners, pick up loose balls etc. It's how it's always been done.
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Yeah that sounds about right to me. Everyone standing in a line several feet from the opposition attackers when a corner comes in like they did yesterday is basically a free hit for them. Definitely needs sorting out.
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