Man to man marking proper use

[Wiesse]

I tried man to man marking in a friendly and I must say against weaker teams is it good, but against stronger oppenents you can better use the zonal marking.

[El Pistolero]

I tried man to man marking in a friendly and I must say against weaker teams is it good, but against stronger oppenents you can better use the zonal marking.

This.

If you are countering, I'm assuming you are weaker in terms of quality. That is not a good idea as they will tare you up if they run past you. Man marking makes it difficult for opponent to play over the defence and block runners. So that said, wouldn't you need a fast defence and you would benefit playing high up the pitch attacking, with offside trap and closing down your own half for balance.

Man marking requires equal or higher quality and enough defenders to mark strikers, enough midfielders to mark midfielders. "Every player will be assigned to his own man" with that logic, if you have more players in your half zonal would be better to double up on them.

I play 4-1-3w-1-1 and I played against a 4-1-2-1-2 wide diamond who was 4* team so I man marked and won 5-0.