ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2026
The Blind Spot of Small-Sided Games: Missing High-Intensity Deceleration Demands in Elite Soccer Players.
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Abstract
Small-sided games (SSGs) are widely used in soccer training to replicate the technical, tactical, and physical demands of competition. However, their ability to reproduce the multidimensional distribution of accelerative and decelerative actions observed during official matches remains unclear. This study compared multidimensional locomotor distributions between SSGs and official match play in eleven professional soccer players monitored across more than 20 official matches and multiple SSG sessions during a competitive season. Locomotor data were obtained using validated tracking systems and analyzed by integrating speed, acceleration/deceleration magnitude, and metabolic power. The resulting multidimensional distributions were compared using Jensen-Shannon (JS) divergence to quantify distributional similarity. For accelerations, differences between SSGs and official matches were minimal at low metabolic power but increased progressively, reaching the greatest divergence above 60 W·kg
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