ok, i've been thinking about this a lot lately. Basically, would you waste more energy marking a man correctly than you would incorrectly? For example, i play left wing, and i stick with the other team's winger for the whole game, whereas i don't stick with him when my team gets the ball, and then when the other team gets the ball i run back to mark him which gets tiring. What do you think of these philosophies and what is the proper way to mark?
well dont get to out of hand and just plain out leave the guy and forget about him. but you dont need to be marking him the whole game. just make sure that hes close enough to where if any dangerous ball is played to him that you can handel it with ease.
When you have been attacking you shouldn't have to run to mark there winger because this is what the left back is for. The proper way to mark is that you should always be closer to your goal than your man.
I play right-back, and as a fullback my priorities are mark first, attack second. When I played as a left winger earlier in high school, my priorities were reversed. If you haven't got a good LB behind you to mark your man when you're attacking, that's a problem you yourself cannot solve.
I have had your same problem as an outside mid before, and i would shadow my man at all times, and when we had the ball i would blow past him waiting for a pass, then at a turnover, id have to work all the way back to mark him up again. At times, i felt like i was wasting my energy doing this, but the coach never complained or scolded me for the extra work, so i never got too discouraged about it. I think you are better off doing what you are doing now, as long as you can handle it, because if you get lazy and let your outside back worry about it, if he is already marking up on a man or if thought you had the man, it becomes youre fault that the opposing winger scored, or made a play. I see nothing wrong with what you are doing
If their right winger (you being on the left) is a good player, he should be marking you when you are on the offensive attack. If he's being lazy, rather than worrying about his position if there is a turnover, take advantage of his slack and get open for a pass and score a goal. Exploit his mistakes. At the same time though, don't let him take advantage of you.
This question really involves your team's system of play. I would never organize a team this way, or else you are not correctly describing the positions. Also even a man to man defense involves some zonal play as you get farther from the ball. Only in very unusual circumstances would one player follow another player wherever he went on the field. An example of this would be assigning a fullback or midfielder to mark the opponent's playmaker or a particularly dangerous striker. This results in the opponent being double teamed as he moves through the different areas of the field. As for the idea of having to make recovery runs after a transistion, that physical requirement is part of the high physical demands that set soccer apart from other sports. No time outs. Two 45 minute halves. Yeah!
I hate it when i play full-back when my winger is too lazy to cover. I love making runs down the wings to cause havoc, but the downside is sprinting all the way back to defend.
You've gotten some good advice in this thread - it's the same problem I've had. In the end, I've found that I end up attacking more at a left-back, then a left wing, simply because I'm often more free as I don't have an oopsition player marking me!
your a left winger so you should really just be doubling up on the oppositions winger instead of marking him you should be attacking the oppositions full back instead and smashing him every time. also you probably just need more communication with the left back, what you might want to consider is if you are a winger and not a left back
If i play on the wing i always leave the opposing winger to my full back and just offer some positional support, but i make sure i pick up the opposing fullback when he makes the overlapping run.
Just a small coaching point when you marking a really dangerous player. After your team wins the ball don't leave your man until the third pass because you leave a dangerous opportunist type player on the first or second pass after your team wins the ball. The ball has an annoying habit of still finding that dangerous player. Then next thing you know he scores on your team and some of the blame will spill onto his marking player.