Mujunel_the_Mystic
they making big mistakes, you can't mark great players and rander than useless. Football is played by 11 each sides, you can't just use three of your Midfielder to make zachary useless. There is bond to be a mistakes happening through out the 90 mins.
zone defense has always been inefficient for marking priority targets, not just in football but in american football as well. There's a reason why you go man to man coverage, and even double-teaming, when up against the best player on the field. I understand that the defense just can't invest three players on Zachary the whole match, but zoning just won't stop athletes like him from still making plays while having to maintain a proper formation, which is what football is all about. Either they hold possession and game tempo, or completely isolate Zachary, but not both, especially not with his new physical fitness levels. Zach on the other hand is playing a free position and should be ruining the opposition's formation every moment he could, easily leaving gaps for his teamates to capitalize on. And that is what should've been what occured in the previous matches but for some reason, all his teammates are somehow always marked or unavailable even with 3-4 opponents always out of the equation to mark him. I honestly am surprised they haven't scored more goals by now from Zach's assists and defense-breaking passes in tandem with his tendency to draw the defense to him. From what I could tell, he's been doing a lot more waiting for the ball and charging ahead, and less of executing playmaking passes and midfield-command strategies, which would have been absolutely effective against their recent oppenents.
Mujunel_the_Mystic:I think you're getting the zone marking idea wrong. It's different from man-to-man marking since the opponents don't need to stay on you. They just have to mark the spaces, create a defensive zone around you, and close out the passing angles to you. This can be done, while they are still keeping an eye on the other players.
So it would be 9 vs 7 game when both goal keeper, Zachery and his 3 marks are out of the picture. Now, one team tried to stop steph curry from scoring by double teaming even when he doesn’t have the ball and stand just in the corner. That match steph scored 0 points but his team won by 30 points cause curry always stayed one corner idle but drawing two enemy player out of the game, so it turned into a 3 v 4 game. Same thing will happen here. Even if Rosenberg's other player are sub per. If the can't handle the game easily then they shouldn't even qualify in Europa.