Man-on-Man Marking

[russ2000_uk]

This is from my experience. I'm afraid I lack empirical evidence to prove this one way, or the other, so it will be a matter of personal opinion...this is what Skidz was doing and, if you read his posts, you can tell that English isn't his first language, so pedantically correcting his grammar may not be the way to go. He is trying to offer advice to someone who had asked for it...

Zonal...works best when facing a stronger team.
M2M...works best when facing a weaker team.

This is just for me, though. I change my formation almost every game, so the marking may have played no part at all, I guess.

[Skidz]

This is from my experience. I'm afraid I lack empirical evidence to prove this one way, or the other, so it will be a matter of personal opinion...this is what Skidz was doing and, if you read his posts, you can tell that English isn't his first language, so pedantically correcting his grammar may not be the way to go. He is trying to offer advice to someone who had asked for it...

Zonal...works best when facing a stronger team.
M2M...works best when facing a weaker team.

This is just for me, though. I change my formation almost every game, so the marking may have played no part at all, I guess.

Hey Russ Im 100% English even if the grammers not upto scratch!, English never was my best subject, Born and bread in England me bro!
My take is with man on man marking, in theory the player will get tired quicker due to the constant following of a player!, yes I have no way to prove this 100% but it does seem logical(to me anyway! I used to play football), yes this is a virtual game but when I play I use my real life experiences as a guide on what to use!, this has served me quite well as a base line, the rest I have learnt from my results over the last 10 seasons, and experimenting. This game has X amount of variables so there is hundreds if not thousands of possible outcomes, but I have over the last four to 5 seasons found that playing the same formation from the start works well, I have stopped using MOM marking and have played zonzal ever since, I switch formation during live matches but still keep Zonal on, I will not ever use anything else.

[Buffs Mad]

MoM marking works if you create the conditions conducive to it working. MoM requires proximity. I'd guess if you want t exploit weaknesses - attacking a narrow formation with a wide one then MoM is less than optimal. I'd further guess than MoM could perform better where you are mirroring (to some extent) an opposing formation rather than employing counter formation strategies.

And finally, Man on Man *sniggers*

Now grow-up/get a life/move on

PS. Just because I replied does not mean I care.

[Josip Crncic]

Okay I would like to post something about the topic
I made a little test here, some weaker opponent was playing 352, i decided to play exactly like him with idea to man mark his midfielders and cut them from defenders and strikers. I have also set hard tackling and pressing style through the whole pitch because i wanted my 5 midfielders to hunt his 5 midfielders wherever they go, to lock them down. Okay, he is weaker than me, but my man marking was totally sucessful and here's match info:



Maybe this will help in some way to you guys who are thinking about using man marking

[Sully]

Okay I would like to post something about the topic
I made a little test here, some weaker opponent was playing 352, i decided to play exactly like him with idea to man mark his midfielders and cut them from defenders and strikers. I have also set hard tackling and pressing style through the whole pitch because i wanted my 5 midfielders to hunt his 5 midfielders wherever they go, to lock them down. Okay, he is weaker than me, but my man marking was totally sucessful and here's match info:



Maybe this will help in some way to you guys who are thinking about using man marking

a better test would be a friendly with 99% condition and m2m, then another friendly agasint the same team with 99% condition and zonal. see the difference then and tell me they are different.

[Siddharth Shanker Singh]

First of all this game is a bunch of cosmetic things...So whether you use MOM or ZONAL it will not affect the result...

Second talk less because Pricop does not like mess and he may block the thread...

[Josip Crncic]

I refuse to believe there's no difference....

[Siddharth Shanker Singh]

I refuse to believe there's no difference....

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[Cat Harrison]

Thats what I was thinking about, more than one match. And maybe against a closer team. I am going to try it with some of mine after today's matches.

[Buffs Mad]

I might be able to do a couple tomorrow. Although Celtic Rangers have 2 matches I can train the other team down to their condition. If I manage it I'll post match stats - kinda interested to see if MoM produces consitently higher tackling figs.