Man or zonal
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Hello everybody I hope you're doing well, what is the difference between man marking and zonal, and when should I man marking and when should I use zonal.
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@Mailuden, in general, the trap works best when you have 3 defenders in the lineup and sometimes works on 4 defenders depending on your tactics set up. Man marking when you have equal or fewer defenders in the opponents' lineup or else Zonal.
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@Mailuden
More accurately, man marking is for when you have as many (not sure about fewer, but this will be easy to verify) defenders as the opponent has forwards - the pundit line about this seems a little scrambled. In general, you'd expect man marking to be better defensively, and perhaps worse for distribution, but I'm not yet certain where the game stands on this. It may be that it's better defense for the hassle of matching the opposing forwards with your defenders - and enabling it.
