A Brief Question: Cutting Off Passing Lanes/Positional Marking Instructions

[Lesterfan_Cambiasso]

Hi Everyone.

Really short question.

Lets suppose you have a centre forward in your team, and the opposition team are not playing with a DM.

If you tell your centre forward to mark the position of DM in the player instructions screen, will he only go into that position without the ball if an opposition player goes into that position?

This is just an example, I mean in the defensive phase asking a member of your team to be somewhere, but not directly engaging an opponent.

Or is intercepting passes solely down to the players positioning, decisions, concentration, anticipation etc?

 

Thank you!

[CARRERA]

1 hour ago, Lesterfan_Cambiasso said:

Or is intercepting passes solely down to the players positioning, decisions, concentration, anticipation etc?

Intercepting passes is primarily down whether you ask your 1st defender to pressure the ball or to stay in the defensive shape and cut off passing lanes. You can’t do both at once. If you pressure the ball, you need to leave your position and open up space or an attacker who is then available for a pass. If you stay in shape to cut off passing lanes you can’t pressure the ball and the attacker has more time to make a good decision for what to do next. Of course player attributes do have a great effect on how good your players can fulfill those tasks. 

Edited September 21, 2021 by CARRERA