Season 26 Week 21 processing...

Thanks Paul. The Inter v Milan game needs a look for sure as my AM should pick up the TM and the CL and CR the ST and S2. This currently doesn't happen as the TM is marked by a CB.

Rob@Inter wrote:

Thanks Paul. The Inter v Milan game needs a look for sure as my AM should pick up the TM and the CL and CR the ST and S2. This currently doesn't happen as the TM is marked by a CB.

what the report shows is who is zone marking your players, not the other way around, make sense ?

the rb lb rh lh are being shown in the wrong positions for some formations but ive fixed that now.

the normalised system is

am marks tm
cl and cr mark 2 of cf st or s2, lb or rb take the extra if there are 3
lblk marks wide right player
rbrk marks wide left player
al ar mark dl dr unless dl and dr are wide players then they will be picked up by rbrk lblk
bw chase the ball as normal and dont zone mark
attackers only zone mark at corners and freekicks and sometimes in midfield in defensive formations.
dy picks up opposition dy
attacking fullbacks/wingbacks are picked up by wide players when they come forward
gk is always free ( for last minute heroics )

if these cant happened then the system uses one of five fallback zone marking plans.

the idea of the report is to give you a guide as to who on the opposition team will be zone marking your players, you may be able to better matchup your players by maybe using one of the exchange tactics or a gamemod. the idea is to try and make this part of the game more visible. but it is only a guide, if the opposition dont play the same formation as they did the week the report is printed then the info becomes useless.

also it can change dramatically if the opposition use man marking.

this is blackburns report ( thanks to Matt )


ZONAL MARKING     Main Tactic : ISF Opponent : 040

          ST Robinho                CF Torres                  S2 Goodwillie              
          CR Watson                 CL Virgo                   LB Kane                    
          DL Noble                                                 DR Cabella                 
          AR Nolan                                                 AL Dawson                  
                                         AM Garcia                                             
                                         DY Robertson                                          
 LB Lopez              CL Broadfoot             CR Wimmer             RB Scobbie          
 RB Peltier             CF Walters                NA                         LH Sweeney          
                                         GK Foster                                             
                                         NA 

it shows the blackburn team on top and who from the oppo team might be zone marking them.
ie Torres will be picked up by Virgo, Robinho by Watson and Goodwillie by Kane with Peltier picking up the spare man when he comes forward or doubling up on Robinho when his man stays back.

this now gives Matt the info that might cause him to switch Robinho and Goodwillie in order to release robbie from his double teaming. zone marking has nothing to do with reps so if Robinho was switched to S2 then Goodwillie would be the one double teamed.

Thanks Paul. That helps a lot.

on the other hand stoke might want to switch to a 3 man defence which would give with 2 AM

       Robinho Torres Goodwillie
       CR        CC      CL
       Noble    Garcia Cabella
       AR                  AL

it might be better to have the main threats covered and leave blackburns AM free.