Zonal marking at its best!NickF wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 2:51 pmIsn't there a very similar picture from West Brom away last season?DB10GOONER wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:14 amThis photo says everything about our defending and the lack of proper defensive coaching/discipline;
Lesson are never learnt which is why we have no chance of winning the title with Wenger.
EDIT - This was the one:
I remember Lee Dixon being asked about zonal marking and he said that usually they would set up man to man, but sometimes under GG the old Arsenal back 4 would utilise zonal marking - but that they drilled and drilled in how to control their zone. the obvious implication being you should not use zonal marking without teaching your defenders how to do it and then practicing it.
Also the unsaid elephant in the room from Dicko's comments was that the old Arsenal back 4 had the intelligence and coaching required to adapt to zonal when needed whereas the current crop are not good enough or coached well enough to be able to do the same thing.
Wenger struck lucky with inheritting that back 4, then he had one of his few genuine moments of genius to place Vieira and Petit in front of them. Now he seems incapable of seeing that you cannot win the CL or the PL without a solid defence.