Quote Originally Posted by Medo zalata View Post
Surely I agree with you
What I meant is that against weaker teams man marking would be more suitable to make CA then score more goals as one defender could take the ball easily and start a CA

Against stronger teams man marking would be useless as attacker would dribble the defender easily but zonal would be better to outnumber attackers
I noticed in live animation matches that if an attack took a long time to be stopped then no CA but if it was a short time then your players would start a CA
So man marking would take less time to stop a weaker team's attack but zonal would be better defence without CA

What do you think ??
Defensive CA formations should use man marking
Using zonal means less CAs ??
From what it seems, man-on-man marking might be more suitable against teams that force counter-attacks. The counter might be stopped more easily and more quickly at its source, that is in the opponents half, or intercepted or made into offside in 'our' half. Also, if ever the attacker manager to receive the long ball, the defender will stick to him.
A lot of testing is need though.