Doing a little work with PCB antennas for 2.4GHz, I have a question.

I have the option to tune the element lengths for resonance or best
impedance match.  With a simple dipole, resonance would be around 72 ohms.
If I tune for best impedance match, then I will be off resonance.

Intuitively it has always seemed best to me to tune for resonance and then
match the impedance.  If I do this, then I end up right on the non-reactive
line, and I need both an L and C to transform the impedance down to 50
ohms. Both are lossy.

At 2.4 GHz, in very space constrained antennas, everything has costs but
they are way less trivial than in less space constrained systems or at
lower frequencies.

So the question is, from those who have experience here, which is likely to
result in overall lower loss in a real implementation, trimming for
resonance and matching, or tuning for match and letting it be non-resonant.

Alternatively, resonant structures that can be near 50 ohms on a real PCB?
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