Zonal Marking

[Kevin Mirallas]

Goalkeeper stands in the middle of the goal.
3 players form a wall by the corner taker, jump up.

If the taker is shiz, it will hit the wall when they jump or it will go back post as he will concentrate on beating them unless its a world class player)
Goalkeeper comes out and catches it.
3 People who were in the wall start bailing for the counter.

 

[pfim]

Zonal marking works, it just looks really bad when it doesn't. Then again, some of our man marking actually looks like zonal marking, so there's that.

 

[toffeejack]

i hate zonal marking, never worked for me. Like the post above - space doesn't score goals. We've conceded from so many set pieces this year from a free header and most on here have been asking who was suppose to be marking him? we're surely doing something different because this is usually bread and butter under moyes teams. so the question is why have we changed? it worked before, so why change??

 

[toffeestillidie]

Right.. Its the last min at a dodgy away ( Oldham ).. They have a corner..
Treat it like a free kick.
Make a bit of a wall in front of the taker.
Goalie stands on the pen spot..
If it gets over the wall. he catches it.

Sweet.

The thought of Howard standing by himself at the spot surrounded by attackers in a situation where all he has to do is pluck the ball out of the air is infinitely terrifying

 

[toffeestillidie]

Good post mate! Am also interested to know.

FYI it is Bong. I too would like to know if he posts on here. Very informative he is!

He used to have an account by the same name as his blog, haven't seen him here in a while though.

As to the Bong bit, this guy has more tactical sense than Moyes so maybe that's what Moyes is missing... too bad we sold Jose

 

[toffeejack]

erm???? again, we don't know who was suppose to be marking him

 

[TheBlueGibbon]

erm???? again, we don't know who was suppose to be marking him

It looked like Distin should have picked him up to me, bizarre that he was allowed to be so free.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

It looked like Distin should have picked him up to me, bizarre that he was allowed to be so free.

Distin is the quicker to the ball more often than not, he usually wins most headers an secondary clearances, he doesn't do well for zonal marking.

 

[toffeejack]

It looked like Distin should have picked him up to me, bizarre that he was allowed to be so free.

there was 3 players behind smith standing there not marking a thing