“All credit to Town for the win but did find Barnsley’s tactics a bit odd - seemed to play about 5 different formations during the match and their defending at corners were bizarre - let our three centre backs have a free run on the ball time after time and got punished by it in the end. Waterfall couldn’t believe how much space he had.” Neither could we pal
Zonal defending. They waltzed through us time and time again first half. Made more of an effort of it in the 2nd half till we conceded from the corner.
Does sound like zonal marking that to be fair. I’m not a fan of it I’d prefer man marking but if that’s what we are playing it’ll have to be better implemented in future.
Another of their fans said that was the best they had played all season. It was definitely the worst we've been.
If you want to see a perfect example of just how ineffective zonal marking can be, watch Shrewsbury's third goal. For zonal marking to work it requires the opposition to obligingly play the ball into one of the zones that our players are marking. Shrewsbury weren't so helpful. So you end up with a defender trying to head the ball away when he's running backwards up against a forward trying to score who is running forwards. Only ever one winner in that battle and it's happened a number of times this season.
We haven’t we have been doing zonal marking all season, I have mentioned numerous times, dosnt work for us , losing too many goals from it
I'm starting to see the light. All this time I've been screaming for our players to get tighter on their men, when in fact they never had any men, just areas of the pitch to mark. Sounds like a dream job to me, marking a bit of grass. I reckon we should sell off the back four and get some goats in. At least they'd be a bit more territorial about it.
Man marking wasn't too great when Rudiger scored for Chelsea on Sunday. Whatever the system is just head the effing ball away.
Just returned from my holidays and is custom read 4 4 2. There was an excellent article on how set pieces have become more important in today's modern game for teams looking for an edge in especially tight games (highlighted by england in the world cup). Judge klopp not only appreciates this but has also gone one further and now employs a throw in coach! My point is that our set pieces have been terrible all season both attacking and defending...other teams are utilising this and exposing our weakness.
We had seven players in box , they had two- three when they scored the third goal . Surely got to mark their players at a corner would be better
I didn't get the team selection, which I thought was too negative. Everything was going wrong for us and when Dougall went off and he had the chance to change it by bringing on Moncur for example, he makes a like for like swap instead. At times Moore looked like he was playing central midfield. I think he was rightly getting annoyed at the lack of service, so was going further from goal in the hope of seeing more of the ball, to try and makes things happen for himself. Davies shouldn't be a captain. Whenever we conceeded their was little motivation from any of them to get them going. Total silence. Lacking leaders, which is going to be a concern with our transfer policy. We were chasing the game but didn't bring on Brown.
