Zonal defending = 3 leaked goals. It has to stop!

[ElanJo]

And what about the last 5 months?

How many goals have we let in from corners before the last 2 games? I can't think of one. Zonal marking has worked superbly.

 

[pee dubya]

I can remember what we looked like going for man to man.

Zonal is fine for me.

No system can account for Human error, ever.

 

[samharris]

Silly knee jerk reaction to a bad defensive display. This is the same zonal defending we have used effectively all season. Are you seriously suggesting we change it after one duff display ?

Plus the one last week at Leicester. We comforted ourselves after that by saying VK wasn't playing. Today he was, which is disturbing.

we played really shit at defending away to Arsenal too......oh hang on..!! it will get sorted and Bob will see to it.

 

[Rammyblues]

What annoys me is why of why does Mancini keep taking Tevez off with 10 mins to go when we were in control, should have left him on to see it out. Ah fuck it we are top of the league why are we moaning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jimharri]

Plus the one last week at Leicester. We comforted ourselves after that by saying VK wasn't playing. Today he was, which is disturbing.

we played really shit at defending away to Arsenal too......oh hang on..!! it will get sorted and Bob will see to it.

Hopefully so. We had the best defensive record in the Prem before today (may still do), so hopefully this was a blip.

 

[stony]

Silly knee jerk reaction to a bad defensive display. This is the same zonal defending we have used effectively all season. Are you seriously suggesting we change it after one duff display ?

Plus the one last week at Leicester. We comforted ourselves after that by saying VK wasn't playing. Today he was, which is disturbing.

Oh come on Jim. Even the best defences in the world have off days. It's beyond ridiculous to suggest we change the way we play mid way through our most successful season in years.
Mancini is nothing if not thorough, he will have them working hard on this during the week, make no mistake

 

[Bobbins]

Well hopefully it is just a blip, it just looks so bad when we get it wrong !! Anyway top of the league above the rags, don't get much better than that.

 

[samharris]

we played really shit at defending away to Arsenal too......oh hang on..!! it will get sorted and Bob will see to it.

Hopefully so. We had the best defensive record in the Prem before today (may still do), so hopefully this was a blip.

We must remeber that we are all proud to call the premiership the best league in the world, the reason for this is also due to teams like wolves...near the bottom but give you a hard fought game so well done to them...

we weathered the storm and won the game so im happy with the positives..we also did some excellent defending too today.. sometimes it doesnt go to plan and we concede....football eh..love it.

 

[LoveCity]

We do have a great defensive record but is it possible teams with big target men have sussed out our defence as both Leicester and Wolves have made a joke out of our defence in a week with this formula.

 

[ST Coleridge]

Wasn't Bamba's opener the very first goal we've conceded from a corner under Mancini? Like, in his entire reign?

Hate this overreaction to zonal marking, people seem to just mindlessly agree with whatever the MOTD/Sky pundits say. Benitez used zonal marking, and Liverpool constantly had the 1st/2nd defence in the league. Hodgson prefers man-to-man marking.