The aims were to analyse the physical response of professional soccer players during training considering the contextual factors of match location, season period and quality of opposition.

The purpose was to investigate long corner kicks within the English Premier League that entered the goal area (6-yard box) or the critical are (6-12 yards from the goal-line in the width of the goal area) with the defining outcome occurring after the first contact.

As previous literature updates, I have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.

Following studies were retrieved for this week:

This study analyses the differential perceived match load accumulated by professional soccer players depending on participation in several consecutive matches.

This study aims to quantify and analyze the differences in position-specific performances in games played with three or four defensive players.