How perceiving additional targets modifies teams’ tactical behavior during football small-sided games

Influencia de la longitud del campo en los comportamientos inter e intra -equipo en jóvenes jugadores de fútbol

“…amateur adults in Castellano et al, 2016 andFrencken et al, 2013; U16, U17, and U19 players in Barnabé et al, 2016;and, U17 and U19 players in Olthof, Frencken, & Lemmink, 2015). In general, however, our findings support previous reports of different co-adaptation patterns in response to different task constraints, such as number of players (Silva et al, 2014c), pitch size (Silva et al, 2014b), type and number of goal targets (Travassos et al, 2014a), and presence/absence of floaters . We found that L, CH, and SI all increased with increasing pitch length in both U13 and U14 teams.…”

“…and Lemmink (2013), for instance, showed how modifications to pitch length and width led to changes in lateral and longitudinal inter-team distances in 4-a-side (4v4) SSGs, while Silva et al (2014b) found that different numerical relations between competing teams (5v5, 5v4, and 5v3) were associated with variations in inter-individual and intra-and inter-team tactical behaviors. In a study of 5v5 SSGs, Travassos, Gonçalves, Marcelino, Monteiro, and Sampaio (2014a) showed that increasing the number of scoring targets from two to six increased the distance between the geometric centers (centroids) of the teams, producing different spatial relations between opposing players. In another study of the same format, modifications to scoring targets and goalkeepers and the use of outer-floaters led to co-adaptive team changes reflected by variations in spatial dispersion, team shape, and distances between players and direct opponents .…”

How manipulating task constraints in small-sided and conditioned games shapes emergence of individual and collective tactical behaviours in football: A systematic review

“…Did not address tactics (n=35 (12,(38)(39)(40)(41), two altered the number of players and the type of scoring target (42,43), and one manipulated the number of players, field dimensions, and different scoring target types (7). Legends: Gk -goalkeeper FUTSAT -System of Tactical Assessment in Soccer; LPM -local position measurement; GPET -game performance evaluation tool; TACTO -2D spatial coordinates; day, day2, day3 -played in different sessions; AM and PM -ant meridiem and post meridiem; NE -not evaluated.…”

“…The intention is to expose players to particular situations and conditions that simulate key aspects of competitive performance. These SSCG formats can effectively exaggerate constraints of competitive performance contexts and help to potentiate specific individual technical and collective tactical behaviours, as well as to provide opportunities to experience physical, physiological, and technical demands of competition in a contextualized way (11)(12)(13).…”

How dots behave in two different pitch sizes? Analysis of tactical behavior based on position data in two soccer field sizes. [¿Cómo se comportan los puntos en dos campos diferentes? Análisis del comportamiento táctico basado en los datos de posición en dos tamaños de campo de fútbol].

“…This results from the necessity of players and teams to adapt their tactical organization (Chow et al, 2006;Davids et al, 2013). For example, smaller playing areas decrease the relative space per player and teams constraining tactical organizations such as defensive stability and the creation of offensive opportunities (Travassos, Gonçalves, Marcelino, Monteiro, & Sampaio, 2014).…”