Effects of the pitch configuration design on players’ physical performance and movement behaviour during soccer small-sided games

Coutinho, Diogo; Gonçalves, Bruno; Santos, Sara; Travassos, Bruno; Wong, Del P.; Sampaio, Jaime

doi:10.1080/15438627.2018.1544133

Cited by 53 publications

(82 citation statements)

References 48 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…That is, the manipulation of task constraints should highlight perceptual-action relations between players and the game environment, which allows for the development of their attunement (i.e., capability to continuously pick up the information that supports players’ actions) and calibration (i.e., capability to functionally adjust each action to spatial-temporal relations with teammates and opponents) ( Araújo et al, 2009 ). Accordingly, small-sided games (SSGs) are often used to simulate full game or game phases, maintaining their unstable, dynamic and unpredictable nature, while coupling players actions to the available information ( Davids et al, 2013 ; Travassos et al, 2014a ; Coutinho et al, 2018a , b , 2019 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Numerical Unbalance Constraints Physical and Tactical Individual Demands of Ball Possession Small-Sided Soccer Games

Nunes

Gonçalves

Coutinho³

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study aimed to explore the effects of playing different unbalanced ball possession small-sided games on external workload (distance covered while walking, running, and sprinting, and max speed), tactical individual actions (number of passes with dominant and non-dominant foot), and internal load (rating of perceived exertion, RPE) in under-23 soccer players. Participants played 4v2, 4v3, 4v4, 4v5, and 4v6 small-sided games (SSGs) on a 30 × 25 m playing area. Data were analyzed under an opponent-based perspective, by fixing one team (4vX), and by cooperation-based perspective according to teammates (4v2+X). Global Position System (GPS) monitors were used to collect and compute external workloads and individual tactical actions, and Borg Scale CR10 was used to evaluate RPE. High-Superiority (4v2), Superiority (4v3), and Very Low-Cooperation (4v2+0) formats allow players in balanced teams to cover more distance while walking; on the other side, Inferiority (4v5), High-Inferiority (4v6), and Very High-Cooperation (4v2+4) allow players to sprint more and practice more tactical individual actions as a resultant emergent behavior; all players in SSG conditions with a lower number of conditions, perceived the exercise as more intense, especially in situations with less than two players. Overall, playing in high inferiority situations (4v2 and 4v6) may be used to increase physical demand for the outnumbered team, while coaches may use low superiority situations to adjust the task complexity when developing the players’ tactical individual actions.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Numerical Unbalance Constraints Physical and Tactical Individual Demands of Ball Possession Small-Sided Soccer Games

Nunes

Gonçalves

Coutinho³

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Clear implications for practice could result from this study. The implications of the manipulation of the relative position of the goal target (Coutinho et al, 2018) in relation to the 2-vs-1 sub-phases or the attacker-defender participants’ performance roles (Laakso et al, 2017) allow coaches to improve the design of practice tasks according to the planned goals. Also, in line with previous studies, this study will allow to identify the task constraints that coaches can stress to improve players’ decision and action according to each task condition (Correia et al, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpersonal Dynamics in 2-vs-1 Contexts of Football: The Effects of Field Location and Player Roles

et al. 2019

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study analyzed the spatial-temporal interactions that sustained 2-vs-1 contexts in football at different field locations near the goal. Fifteen male players (under 15 years, age 13.2 ± 1.03 years, years of practice 4.2 ± 1.10 years), 5 defenders, 7 midfielders, and 3 attackers, participated in the study. Each participant performed a game to simulate a 2-vs-1 sub-phase as a ball carrier, second attacker, and defender at three different field locations, resulting in a total number of 142 trials. The movements of participants in each trial were recorded and digitized with TACTO software. Values of interpersonal distance between the ball carrier and defender and interpersonal angles between players and between the goal target, defender, and ball carrier were calculated. The results revealed a general main effect of field location. Generally, the middle zone revealed the lowest values of interpersonal distance and angle between players and the right zone and the highest values of interpersonal distance between players and interpersonal angle between players and the goal. Related with participants’ roles, defenders revealed subtle differences as attackers on interpersonal distances and relative angles compared with midfielders and attackers. Findings supported that field location is a key constraint of players’ performance and that players’ role constraint performance effectiveness in football.

show abstract

“…That is, considering that players' actions are dependent on their ability to use the relevant information from the environment [39,[42][43][44], fast pace games seem to require a faster ability to identify this information, which may affect the players' positional behaviour [8]. In fact, it has been shown that players reveal high levels of team coordination at lower speeds [45]. Therefore, these results must be seen not only at the individual level, but also at the team level, since it also requires that all teammates are able to understand and use the same information to achieve functional, collective movement behaviours [46,47].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of Knowing the Task’s Duration on Soccer Players’ Positioning and Pacing Behaviour during Small-Sided Games

Ferraz

Gonçalves

Coutinho

et al. 2020

IJERPH

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The study aimed to identify how the manipulation of knowledge regarding a training task duration constrains the pacing and tactical behaviour of soccer players when playing small-sided games (SSG). Twenty professional and experienced soccer players participated in a cross-sectional field study using three conditions: not informed on the duration of the SSG, which ended after 20 min (Unknown Condition); briefed about playing the SSG for 10 min, but after they completed the 10-min game, they were requested to complete another 10 min (Partial Condition) and informed before that they would play for 20 min (Known Condition). A global positioning system was used to measure the total distance covered and distances of different exercise training zones (walking to sprinting) and to access the dynamic players positioning through the distance from each player to all the teammates and opponents. Additionally, approximate entropy was measured to identify the regularity pattern of each gathered individual variable. The results indicate that the first 10 min of each scenario presented a higher physical impact independently of the initial information. During this time, the tactical behaviour also revealed higher variability. An increase in the distance of the teammates during the second period of 10-min for the Known scenario was also found, which may result from a lower pacing strategy. This study showed that the prior knowledge of the task duration led to different physical and tactical behaviours of the players. Furthermore, the relationship between the physical impact and the regularity of team game patterns should be well analysed by the coach, because the physical impact may be harmful to the development of the collective organization of the team.

show abstract

Effects of the pitch configuration design on players’ physical performance and movement behaviour during soccer small-sided games

Cited by 53 publications

References 48 publications

How Numerical Unbalance Constraints Physical and Tactical Individual Demands of Ball Possession Small-Sided Soccer Games

How Numerical Unbalance Constraints Physical and Tactical Individual Demands of Ball Possession Small-Sided Soccer Games

Interpersonal Dynamics in 2-vs-1 Contexts of Football: The Effects of Field Location and Player Roles

Effects of Knowing the Task’s Duration on Soccer Players’ Positioning and Pacing Behaviour during Small-Sided Games

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About