Quantifying and modeling the game speed outputs of English Championship soccer players

Connor, Mark, Mernagh, Dylan and Beato, Marco (2021) Quantifying and modeling the game speed outputs of English Championship soccer players. Research in Sports Medicine. ISSN 1543-8627

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Abstract

This study aims to quantify and model the game-speed demands of professional soccer players competing in the English Championship league, to compare the effect of match location and to examine the effect of playing position on game-speed outputs across the season. Twenty-eight male professional soccer players were enrolled. Moving average calculations were applied to the raw GNSS (STATSports) speed data of each player’s duration matches (home = 14 and away = 9). Positional groups were centre-back (CB), full-back (FB), centre-midfield (CM), wing-midfield (WM) and centre-forward (CF). The maximum value across each of the moving average window durations was extracted and converted to units of metres per minute. Power-law models were fitted to all observations (R2 = 0.64), home only (R2 = 0.98), and away only (R2 = 0.98). No significant effects are observed in game-speed outputs when home and away games are analysed. Significant differences were seen between the following positional groups; CBvs.CF (d = −0.323), CM (d = −0.530) and FB (d = −0.350). CM displayed positive difference compared to WM (d = 0.614). This study reported power-law model fitted game speed. Players’ positional groups have significantly different game-speed demands, which should be considered during match analysis and training periodization. This study found that game speed is not affected by the location of the match.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: football, team sports, GPS, speed
Subjects: Q Science > QP Physiology
Divisions: Faculty of Health & Science > Department of Science & Technology
Depositing User: Marco Beato
Date Deposited: 25 Jan 2021 09:47
Last Modified: 10 Feb 2022 01:38
URI: https://oars.uos.ac.uk/id/eprint/1587

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