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Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust
Everyone seems to be completely misreading what Jose is saying
He's talking about zonal marking in general play
LvG had all our players man marking across the pitch
This was never more evident than in the Liverpool Europa league games when our right back was man marking Coutinho and he was dragging him from the right wing to the other side of the pitch causing Rashford to become the right back
Mentalist stuff
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This. He's talking about the need to make the team more compact whilst the opposition have possession in open play. Our defensive record was good last year, but largely due to the brilliance of De Gea - we still conceded far too many chances, and this will be something Mourinho will be looking to fix ASAP, and one way is organising a zonal marking system when we don't have the ball.
FWiW, the comments regarding Zlatan and Rooney are concerning. I don't want to see us building an attack with both of them included. It should be one (at the most), supplemented with the pace, energy and overall brilliance of Martial and Rashford.
A Zlatan/Rooney front-two will be less effective and mind-numbingly pedestrian as the awful Van Persie/Rooney partnership that Moyes went with. Get Rooney out of the club, ffs.