The weakness of a man marking midfield

[Jim Chimmerney]

Personally I think it should be zonal marking all the way, with one qualification - if the opposition have one forward or midfield player who is so much better than his peers that if you stop him you effectively stop the entire team, that's someone you should be man marking. We faced this problem in 2003-4, when a lot more teams started to man mark Michael Brown.

Monty is usually the one to do exactly that in terms of man marking one player out of the game and is generally very good at it. He's usually 'in his face' though, not 'marking' him from 15 yards away.