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4 minutes ago, philmycock said:

Hi.

Martin, what can you offer Derby County Soccer Club?

Can you.

Get us in the top league?

Pronto? And how?

Thank you.

From his LinkedIn page, he can

Lay the bricks

If the academy needs

Extending, he was a construction

Manager, before he became a football

Consultant . 

It's just a shame he didn't, 

Learn to construct a

Sentence.

 

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Zonal defence does not work, man for man marking,

with a sweeper free is the only way to defend as a team.

Every player has responsibility for an opposition player,

all over the pitch.

The centre forward is responsible for either centre back who comes forward.

 

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5 minutes ago, Martinh said:

 

Zonal defence does not work, man for man marking,

with a sweeper free is the only way to defend as a team.

Every player has responsibility for an opposition player,

all over the pitch.

The centre forward is responsible for either centre back who comes forward.

 

Is this some sort of poem...

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8 minutes ago, Martinh said:

 

Zonal defence does not work, man for man marking,

with a sweeper free is the only way to defend as a team.

Every player has responsibility for an opposition player,

all over the pitch.

The centre forward is responsible for either centre back who comes forward.

 

Have you seen us play?

Only, our defence isn't too shabby.

It's up front (offensively) we're struggling!

How can we score more??

Thank you.

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11 minutes ago, Martinh said:

 

Zonal defence does not work, man for man marking,

with a sweeper free is the only way to defend as a team.

Every player has responsibility for an opposition player,

all over the pitch.

The centre forward is responsible for either centre back who comes forward.

 

Zonal marking can be effective, for example when defending free kicks and corners against a team who have a height advantage over you. Many teams have a height advantage over us.

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12 minutes ago, philmycock said:

 

 

13 minutes ago, philmycock said:

Have you seen us play?

Only, our defence isn't too shabby.

It's up front (offensively) we're struggling!

How can we score more??

Thank you.

I am afraid there is little more I am prepared to do here.

This caller showing some signs of respect thankfully.

Your whole game is a shambles, I feel.

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15 minutes ago, RamuelLJackson said:

Zonal marking can be effective, for example when defending free kicks and corners against a team who have a height advantage over you. Many teams have a height advantage over us.

Sorry I did not see this post.

Thank you.

This is outweighed terribly after the play has broken down, let's say.

The next phase, all opponents are given time and space.

What we were always taught to deny.

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7 minutes ago, Martinh said:

Sorry I did not see this post.

Thank you.

This is outweighed terribly after the play has broken down, let's say.

The next phase, all opponents are given time and space.

What we were always taught to deny.

I can see why you are an out of work football consultant

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1 hour ago, Martinh said:

Sorry I did not see this post.

Thank you.

This is outweighed terribly after the play has broken down, let's say.

The next phase, all opponents are given time and space.

What we were always taught to deny.

When executed properly, zonal marking at defensive set plays can also set up quick counter-attacking, and of course man marking can still happen under other situations. I'm not saying DCFC necessarily have the players to make this work, but I do think dismissing zonal marking out of hand is unwise. It has a role to play.

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How can you man mark if the teams are set up massively different? 

It would require players playing way out of position? 

If Derby stuck strictly to man marking then who picks up who in midfield if we came up against a flat 442?

That's how you end up getting an entire team dragged all over the place. 

You can't stick to just man marking or just zonal. 

 

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8 hours ago, Alpha said:

1 How can you man mark if the teams are set up massively different? 

2 It would require players playing way out of position? 

3 If Derby stuck strictly to man marking then who picks up who in midfield if we came up against a flat 442?

4 That's how you end up getting an entire team dragged all over the place. 

5 You can't stick to just man marking or just zonal. 

 

1       Doesn't matter how they set up. Find a player and mark him, that is not hard.

2 & 4

         You are overestimating the intelligence of the average football manager.

          Call it one upmanship, you thought of it first. They know better. Don't adapt or even copy.

          Result leave all their players in the same place.

3         I start every game 4 3 3.

           If they have three up front I have three marking at the back plus a sweeper.

           If they have four in midfield I push a defender in to mark him.

           If they have five in midfield I push another defender in to mark him.

           Congest their play in midfield as far away from our goal as possible.

5         Zonal defense is defeatist by nature. Giving the opposition too much

            time and space on and off the ball.

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3 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

1 As a football consultant, I am sure you will have realised our problems are in attack rather than defence at the moment.

Not sure how man to man marking is going to increase the number of goals we score or improve our shooting accuracy, please explain.

   1 At the moment, until the next game you let in two or three goals.

   2 To score goals you need the ball. This system will give you an awful lot of it.

      For me the game is basically three parts.

      How to defend. How to attack. Skill.

      In answer to a previous question. Google man to man marking.

      My information this system was used successfully back in 1960 or so.

      Never deemed ineffective but extremely disliked for being unattractive.   

      I believe good defensive play can be combined with good attacking play,

      not to i'ts detriment.

      I have given you 1/3 rd of my life's work. How to defend.

      Will respectfully hold on to attack and skill. I say I can provide.

      

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