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Originally posted by timmers:
Have Newcastle in the FA Cup, Owen scored 2 goals against me at home and we drew 2-2. Have the replay coming up. I'm Bristol City by the way. I have never set about injuring anyone before and to my shame I was thinking of setting a man marker on Owen, with tight marking and hard tackling ? I assume this is the closest you can get to injuring a player ?
Anyone done this before and with what result ?
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I've never set out to injure specifically, but I definitely utilize "Hard" tackling against players who have low "Bravery" - you can rattle them and scare them off, its brilliant.
As for shutting down a single player, which seems to be the root of your question, I recommend double-covering him. Seriously.
The basic premise is: set
two players to explicit man-mark him.
For a winger, I use my winger and fullback on that side. For a striker, I use a centre-back and a defensive midfielder.
The defender has tight marking
off, so that he stays between the player and the goal. The midfielder/winger has tight marking
on, to try and deny him service.
As you'd expect, this usually takes that player
completely out of the game ... but at a cost: you may be pulling your defense out of shape. So, I try to use it only against a team where I know they're built around one player, and I don't really respect the other players.
I'm not sure Newcastle quite counts on those other aspects!
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