Zonal marking is gonna relegate us

As I stated In my post
Also Halme tracked his man if you see the video , there was only one free man .

 

Im same in thinking which is best and as you say errors are errors .
But surely if something isn’t working and it’s costing goals and more importantly points then a change to find something that works for the immediate future .

 

Your traditional fire fighter manager would go man to man. I'm not sure we will appoint such a manager. A pressing / quick break style doesn't suit man to man.

 

Well I’m no tactician and as I said Cavare seemed unsure when Williams tore away from him .
I don’t know whether he was Cavares man to block and I’m not blaming one man for the confusion of our total defence .
Such a young squad we gonna get this i expect and tactics could mean a player that looks culpable isn’t actually the one to blame which is confusing me at best .

 

Well you’ll have seen when the ball is fired in which granted Sibbick should have at least tried to stop Cavare is at side of goal scorer but stats static whilst attacker moves in to tap ball home .
As I said the whole move was to blame Sibbick for the cross and Cavare for losing his man .
But that’s observational and it’s more than individual mistakes or lapses it’s a team thing which along with a lack of confidence from lack of experience or whatever is killing us .

 

I suggest you watch the video again as I just have halme was marking space in the center of the goal jacob brown in similar position.

 

Whether it's zonal marking or man marking, it helps if we have defenders attempting to clear the ball. For Bristol's first goal, all of our defenders just watched it go by, Cavare would have had a fairly simple job of clearing it for another corner. Can also ask questions of the keeper, when the ball is that close.

 

I don't think it has anything to do with the system we are playing. If you don't have the quality to win your 1v1s you are going to lose out. Players who have left the club and been slagged off on here would look like world beaters at the side of our Defence. The players we have simply aren't good enough.

 

What annoyed me for their first goal, was that Diaby pointed to Cavare several times towards Williams. He took position up but didn’t move.

Zonal can work, but only if every player knows fully what to do, without doubt. There’s always that element of self-doubt whether you should follow the player or someone else will pick them up. That’s where it goes wrong.

Saying that, man marking is always better. And with Dougall back in the team, we have the height to cope.

 

Dougall lost his man for their second.

 

I know, I’m saying that if we went back to man-marking rather than zonal, we have a giant back 3 as well as Sibbick and Dougall. For once, we seem to have a decent height in the team.

 

They use zonal because if you're man marking a player it takes them and you out of the game. Under zonal you're free when the ball breaks. With man marking the defence would tighten up but so would the games as well.

I'd stick with zonal because we don't score shed loads of goals and if we were tighter we wouldn't concede many but we would score even less.

 

This also means the attackers are free if the ball breaks , same old problems with zonal marking