Zezti
Player Valuation: £70m
Pretty meaningless poll though.
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tim cahill
Player Valuation: £50m
It means most Everton fans aren’t happy with how Silva is setting us up to defend set pieces.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
I’ve never liked zonal marking, even though theoretically be the best. Break it down, men are in the box moving around, but eyes should actually be on the flight of the Ball, now zonal ‘should’ allow for the zone where the ball is heading to be attacked, but invariably the movement drags players out of their zone and they end up neither man marking nor zonal marking. Another issue is if there is a flick on, where zonal marking becomes useless......I’m sure there are proper experts on here who will demonstrate how zonal marking is the best, but it never seems to work tbh. So I don’t like zonal nor man marking. I’d prefer it if the bleeding centre halves and the keeper just kept their eyes on the ball and attacked it......but I’m from a different age......
Must have some psychic powers that Neville fella.
Zonal marking is fine when it’s executed properly. Done poorly it’s abysmal. It remains to be seen whether Silva can coach these players into doing it correctly.
Toffee in Jandals
Player Valuation: £35m
Zonal will always be easier to coach at a training session than man-marking as some defenders may simply pick up the wrong man.
I wonder if that's the reason why so many PL manager's seem to defend with zonal marking - it's simply easier to coach/manage.
I wonder if that's the reason why so many PL manager's seem to defend with zonal marking - it's simply easier to coach/manage.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £60m
Getting beat at the near post every time. Happened against Southampton as well. Convinced it’s the crappy system we are running for set pieces
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £60m
It’s just a lazy way to defend set pieces
Watching the goal again, zonal marking isnt the issue, if people have stayed in their zones we pick up the 2nd ball and they dont score, instead 3 people went for the ball and left a massive hole in the middle of the goal.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £60m
That is a problem itself, but the front post flick is virtually uncontested every time. We either need to change things up or somebody has to take responsibility and put some pressure on that player.
Lukaku used to win them everytime.
Toffee in Jandals
Player Valuation: £35m
It is.......... I don't like it and would prefer man-marking. Surely it's not that difficult for a well-organized defensive unit to ensure each opposing player is picked up.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £60m
I don’t care if we just sit a player right in that spot. Silva needs to come up with a solution because the players either don’t get it or other teams are taking advantage of the zonal marking.
SteStocksDJ
Player Valuation: £8m
I wonder if the world cup has had an effect on this? Alot of pens given for holding - zonal means there's less chance to hold your man.
Can be used effectively...but it makes no sense at times if you've got someone who has a run on you...they're usually favourite to win the header
Can be used effectively...but it makes no sense at times if you've got someone who has a run on you...they're usually favourite to win the header
Eh? One was a direct freekick, another was a penalty. The second against Wolves was open play.
So we've had two instances of being undone by zonal making on corners. Both cases were easily preventable by a more aggressive player on the front post than Cenk has been. IMO it's the players not his system.
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