IanBishopsHaircut wrote:I reckon we should stamp on his twattin face
Ted Hughes wrote:In the old days man marking used to work but these days it seems the bloke appointed to man mark usually ends up stopping to scratch his arse leaving the target unmarked & he scores anyway so it's just been a waste of a player.
Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:In the old days man marking used to work but these days it seems the bloke appointed to man mark usually ends up stopping to scratch his arse leaving the target unmarked & he scores anyway so it's just been a waste of a player.
Despite disagreeing about Hughes, I have to say that you are the one poster alongside CtK who stands out as really knowing your football tactics mate.
You are absolutely spot on again. Man marking worked ten - fifteen years ago but modern players, especially likes of Shrek, work in whole pitch and if we sacrifice one man marking him, he will just be taken on tour and in the end Rooney will probably score anyway. Or at least another player using the free space to score. Numerous times probably.
The way to stop him is to have solid back four working together as an unit.
Ted Hughes wrote:Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:In the old days man marking used to work but these days it seems the bloke appointed to man mark usually ends up stopping to scratch his arse leaving the target unmarked & he scores anyway so it's just been a waste of a player.
Despite disagreeing about Hughes, I have to say that you are the one poster alongside CtK who stands out as really knowing your football tactics mate.
You are absolutely spot on again. Man marking worked ten - fifteen years ago but modern players, especially likes of Shrek, work in whole pitch and if we sacrifice one man marking him, he will just be taken on tour and in the end Rooney will probably score anyway. Or at least another player using the free space to score. Numerous times probably.
The way to stop him is to have solid back four working together as an unit.
Yep. Also Rooney likes to operate in that area just around the edge of the box & down the sides of the box. If we make sure he doesn't get time on the ball in those areas by getting midfield players in there quickly preferably blocking the pass in the 1st place it'll make his job a lot harder. We let him escape several times last week & were very close to getting caught out.
The main thing imo though is that when they do get the ball off him, we pass it properly & get attacks down their end quickly rather than just kicking it back to them. It only needs 3/4 players to go if they move quickly. I'm convinced that if we do that we'll score & they have a big game coming at weekend so I think they'll possibly take him off ( if he starts anyway which I'm not sure about) if the game looks gone. They don't want to knacker out their strongest 11 in the league cup, no matter how much they hate us, at some point they have to think about Arsenal. It could decide the PL.
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