19 Ene Effect of Increasing the Number of Substitutions on Physical Performance during Periods of Congested Fixtures in Football
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Plain-English Summary for First-Team Staff This study tracked 66 LaLiga SmartBank matches played in congested weeks (three games in seven days) and analysed 1,077 player reports with Mediacoach. After the five-substitution rule came in, teams used more subs on average (≈2.94 ➜ 4.58 per match). Despite...