Match Thread Derby County - Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 16th Aug (23 Viewers)

[Hullinho87]

Maybe old fashioned, but for me you go man for man for the get go. Too much ambiguity and finger pointing with zonal and hybrid systems are worse.
There's your man, stick with him, if he scores it's your fault

There is much more complexity to attacking teams movement, secondary runs, blockers nowadays that set piece coaching/coaches like when teams go man for man, they plan for that.

But at Championship level and below, more often than not, attacking set pieces are just put into a “good area” and everyone stays alive in an attacking sense and play off the chaos.

Well organised teams like Burnley last season should be able to deal with that, as should we.

The issue of Derby’s 3rd yesterday wasn’t really about the initial clearance, we won that relatively comfortably… it’s Adams’ movement you need to watch. Just left alone, in space.
Very easy to negate that from our point of view, no matter what the initial set up process is.

 

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[ovduk78]

I was just watching the highlights back - and trying to figure out what was going on for the third - JDS is either zonal marking, or totally lost his man (or someone else did) - either way, he is just stood there watching the play

JDS spends most of the time when teams are attacking through our left back position just watching the play