Marking

[Mikey_V]

Should I have my CBs man mark the opposition strikers? I was wondering what tactics people use to deal with the opponent's strikers because I seem to be conceding a lot of sloppy goals. Thanks

 

[AniPhan]

if your opponent is using a lone striker you could try marking him out with OI. otherwise, don't man mark the strikers especially if his off the ball movement is good, he'll make your defender tag him off position leaving possible gaps in the defense line. use a tight zonal marking with medium or lower closing down on team instructions, but make your defenders OI close down the strikers and show onto weaker foot, this makes your defenders or any nearby player to close down the striker(s) allowing less space and time to work or force an error. the tight zonal marking will cause the defense to try to regain good shape as much as possible. try to get good defenders. anyway, can't do much if you're trying to stop rooney, torres, etc. hope this helps

 

[Mikey_V]

Cheers m8! Wow I didn't even think about the Off the ball movement mate, nice one! So I should have my CB set to zonal marking with the tight marking box ticked ?

 

[Preston85]

Yeah I didn't realise when I was making a new tactic from scratch i'd left marking to man, went into to the first game I couldn't even tell what formation I was meant to be playing because my players were all over the place.

I typically use Zonal for the whole team and only use Man/Specific for certain players if the formations don't match, say if you have 3 MCs (DMC+2MC ect) otherwise you might have 2 men on one, or a AMC marking a DC instead of a MC.

 

[Mikey_V]

Yeah I get ya mate cheers, did ya use the 'Tight Marking' as well?

 

[Luis Aragones Legacy]

TTF proposes individual marking and tight marking for CBs, zonal and tight for FB but TTF can be wrong sometimes, works pretty well for me I guess considering the quality of my defenders.

 

[Preston85]

I set both DC's to Tight whatever the tactic/formation/mentality OR use the OI to select who to tight mark so can select a big slow deeper playing striker to tight mark while against a quicker striker I don't want my defender left behind.

If tactic is attacking i'll typically turn tight marking off since I view my opponents as weaker so my players don't have to be as close to defend them.

If tactic is defensive/normal mentality then i'll just manually change the attacking players to zonal (ST, ML/MR) although not all of the most advanced players (so only 1 of 2 forwards) as I don't want them to just pass it along there defenders. Marking one tight and one loose means the one with loose marking is more likely to get the ball but then be closed down and play a bad pass.

Yeah TTF really depends on the class of players you have and your opponent has. Lower leagues with poor movement, mostly long balls ect then yeah simple man marking where "thats your guy" is probably better.

 

[AniPhan]

Cheers m8! Wow I didn't even think about the Off the ball movement mate, nice one! So I should have my CB set to zonal marking with the tight marking box ticked ?

basically, that's what i would do (H)

 

[Div_Muzza]

In one of the old CM games I used to have one of my strikers mark the opposition GK and he used to score loads. Just remembered that reading this.

 

[Luis Aragones Legacy]

Yeah I always clsoe down the keeper just in case he does one of those ''I keep the ball for no reason so the striker can take it from me idea'', just scored one like that yesterday I think.