Acute and Residual Soccer Match-Related Fatigue: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Understanding soccer players’ match-related fatigue and recovery profiles likely helps with developing conditioning programs that increase team performance and reduce injuries and illnesses. In order to improve match recovery (the return-to-play process and ergogenic interventions) it is also pivotal to determine if match simulation protocols and actual match-play lead to similar responses. (1) To thoroughly describe the development of fatigue...