Derby 3-0 Bolton

Sluffy wrote:

When playing three at the back the defenders usually mark zonally but more often mark the players directly in a normal back four rather than those who enter their 'zonal space' in three at the back - if you can understand what I'm trying to say.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Sluffy wrote:It might have something to do with reverting back to three at the back - I said before the game I didn't think this game was the right match to play it and it seems Parkinson regretted it himself by reverting to four at the back at half time - of course it was too late by then already being two nil down.

When playing three at the back the defenders usually mark zonally but more often mark the players directly in a normal back four rather than those who enter their 'zonal space' in three at the back - if you can understand what I'm trying to say.

If you analyse their first goal (after just 6 minutes!) Burke does seemed to have tracked the goal scorer and failed to get a challenge in, but if you care to notice immediately the goal is scored and the Derby players run off to celebrate, you will se a number of Wanderers players still rooted to the spot one of which is Wheater and if you play the clip back again and pay particular attention to him you will see that he wasn't marking anyone and missed (badly) in his attempt to cut out the cross which led to the goal.

It seems therefore you had one centre back (Wheater) presumably playing zonal marking and another centre back (Burke) presumably playing man marking.  Which kind of suggests that one of them wasn't on the same page as the other when it came to how to keep things tight at the back.

To be honest we didn't really expect to get a result at Derby and I guess the conspiracists amongst us might even think we rested players like Ameobi, Flanagan and Buckley (are you reading this Bonce!) for a more realistic chance of a result this coming Tuesday.

Disappointing run of recent games admittedly but we are not dead and buried yet - even though some would have us believe we are already relegated.

Where there is life there is hope they say and we still have it within our own grasp to secure our survival.

Keep the faith.

All that from watching Soccer Saturday?

T.R.O.Y wrote:

Sluffy wrote:

When playing three at the back the defenders usually mark zonally but more often mark the players directly in a normal back four rather than those who enter their 'zonal space' in three at the back - if you can understand what I'm trying to say.

Oh no, far too complex for us to understand that .

Generally speaking a 3 man defence is a mixture of zonal and man marking as the ‘sweeper’ (presumably Wheater in this case) acts as a spare and should mark zonally while the other 2 man mark.

Clearly didn’t work as intended.

T.R.O.Y wrote:No spare defenders at set pieces are responsible for attacking the ball at corners, don’t know what point you’re trying to make about busy penalty areas. I’m just telling you why there’s a mixture of man marking and xo al marking in a back 3.