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Man marking or zonal defense?

Zidane chose to play man marking on Messi with Kovacic on the Dec 23rd '17 El Classico. There are several important things for young players to learn from this situation. From the offensive viewpoint: 1. The dribble of Rakitic. When a player with the ball sees the space in front of him/her, he/she has to accelerate towards the goal as fast as he/she can, and do not look for passes (unless he/she see a teammate in a better position) until someone blocks the way. It is very important to recognize the opportunity to dribble and get closer to the opponent's goal. 2. Rakitic dribbled until he pulled a player on him, thus he created 1-2 free teammate on the field. From the defensive viewpoint: 1. It is a questionable decision to entirely man mark the best player against a team, which has 10 more world class players. 2. . The decision of Mateo Kovacic. A) One of the first things thought in youth soccer is after losing possession of the ball to press the opponent who holds on for the ball immediately. Since Kovacic was told to follow Messi the entire time, he gave up the space for Rakitic, which created a huge gap in the middle. B) First Kovacic made three steps towards Rakitic instincly, but then he made a game changing decision and stopped following him. With those first three steps he could also confuse his teammates in defense. C) Slowing down the counter attack. If Kovacic would attack Rakitic, he could slow down Barca's counter attack and his team could regroup its defensive position. D) If Kovacic would not have changed his mind, in the worst case scenario he could use a tactical fault to stop Barca's counter attack.