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Fatigue in soccer: A brief review

Magni Mohr, Peter Krustrup & Jens Bangsbo
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Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Department of Human Physiology, August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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The August Krogh Institute, IFI, Universitetsparken 13, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark Email: jbangsbo@aki.ku.dk Available online: 18 Feb 2007

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Fatigue in soccer: A brief review

MAGNI MOHR, PETER KRUSTRUP, & JENS BANGSBO

Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Department of Human Physiology, August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (Accepted 24 July 2004)

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Abstract This review describes when fatigue may develop during soccer games and the potential physiological mechanisms that cause fatigue in soccer. According to time motion analyses and performance measures during match-play, fatigue or reduced performance seems to occur at three different stages in the game: (1) after short-term intense periods in both halves; (2) in the initial phase of the second half; and (3) towards the end of the game. Temporary fatigue after periods of intense exercise in the game does not appear to be linked directly to muscle glycogen concentration, lactate accumulation, acidity or the breakdown of creatine phosphate. Instead, it may be related to disturbances in muscle ion homeostasis and an impaired excitation of the sarcolemma. Soccer players ability to perform maximally is inhibited in the initial phase of the second half, which may be due to lower muscle temperatures compared with the end of the rst half. Thus, when players perform lowintensity activities in the interval between the two halves, both muscle temperature and performance are preserved. Several studies have shown that fatigue sets in towards the end of a game, which may be caused by low glycogen concentrations in a considerable number of individual muscle bres. In a hot and humid environment, dehydration and a reduced cerebral function may also contribute to the deterioration in performance. In conclusion, fatigue or impaired performance in soccer occurs during various phases in a game, and different physiological mechanisms appear to operate in different periods of a game.

Keywords: Timemotion analysis, high-intensity exericse, sprint performance, muscle metabolism.

Introduction The physical aspects of soccer have been studied intensively in male participants. Using time motion analysis, it has been demonstrated that elite players typically cover a total distance of 9 12 km during a game (Bangsbo 1994; Bangsbo, Nrregaard, & Thorse, 1991; Reilly & Thomas, 1976; Rienzi, Drust, Reilly, Carter, & Martin, 1998; Van Gool, Van Gerven, & Boutmans, 1988; Mohr, Krustrup, & Bangsbo, 2003a; Mohr, Ellingsgaard, Andersson, Bangsbo, & Krustrup, 2003b). The type of exercise performed in soccer is intermittent, with a change in activity every 4 6 s (Bangsbo, 1994; Mohr et al., 2003a,b; Reilly & Thomas, 1976). Thus, an international top-class player performs approximately 1350 activities during a game, including about 220 runs at high speed (Mohr et al., 2003a). Besides running, other game-related and energy-demanding activities, such as dribbling, tackling and heading, contribute to the overall demands on the player (Bangsbo, 1994; Reilly, 1997). On average, the

aerobic loading during a game is about 75% of maximal oxygen uptake (Bangsbo, 1994; Mohr et al., 2003b; Reilly, 1994), with the anaerobic system being highly taxed during intense periods of a game (Bangsbo, 1994; Ekblom, 1986; Krustrup et al., 2003a; Reilly 1997). This review discusses fatigue during a game and the physiological mechanisms that may impair a players physical performance. Fatigue is dened as failure to maintain the required or expected power output (Edwards, 1983). Temporary fatigue during a game Studies have demonstrated that the amount of sprinting, high-intensity running and distance covered are lower in the second half than in the rst half of a game (Bangsbo, 1994; Bangsbo et al., 1991; Mohr et al., 2003a,b; Reilly & Thomas, 1976). This may indicate that performance is inhibited in the second half and fatigue occurs towards the end of a game. The question is whether the players also

Correspondence: J. Bangsbo, The August Krogh Institute, IFI, Universitetsparken 13, DK-2100 Copenhagen , Denmark. E-mail: jbangsbo@aki.ku.dk ISSN 0264-0414 print/ISSN 1466-447X online 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd DOI: 10.1080/02640410400021286

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M. Mohr et al. Additionally, a weak but signicant correlation (r = 0.41) was found between muscle lactate and decreased sprinting performance after an intense period (Krustrup et al., 2003a). Therefore, it could be suggested that temporary fatigue during a game may be related to high muscle lactate concentrations and/or muscle acidosis, since it has been demonstrated in vitro that high lactate and low pH impair muscle performance during intense contractions (Fitts, 1994). However, muscle lactate concentrations during the game were rather low (on average *20 mmol kg71 dry weight) compared with those found at exhaustion after high-intensity exercise (Bangsbo, Graham, Kiens, & Saltin, 1992a; Bangsbo et al., 1992b; Gaitanos, Williams, Boobis, & Brooks, 1993). Furthermore, in a study using the Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test, in which athletes perform intense intermittent exercise to exhaustion, muscle lactate and pH recorded 1.5 min before the point of fatigue were not different from those seen at exhaustion (Krustrup et al., 2003b). Thus, it is unlikely that elevated muscle lactate and lowered muscle pH cause fatigue during a soccer game. The development of fatigue that occurs temporarily during a game may be due to low muscle creatine phosphate concentrations, since performance in intense intermittent exercise has been demonstrated to be elevated after a period of creatine supplementation (Balsom, Seger, Sjodin, & Ekblom, 1992; Greenhaff, Bodin, Soderlund, & Hultman, 1994). In addition, it has been shown that after intense periods in soccer the decrease in muscle creatine phosphate is signicantly correlated with impairment in sprint ability (Krustrup et al., 2003a). On the other hand, muscle creatine phosphate was only lowered by 25%, which in part could be due to the fast recovery of creatine phosphate and the approximately 20 s delay in collecting the muscle biopsy in this study. Creatine phosphate may have been signicantly lower in individual muscle bres, since the stores of creatine phosphate have been reported to be almost depleted in individual bres at the point of fatigue after intense exercise (Sderlund & Hultman, 1991). However, during the Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test, no changes were observed in muscle creatine phosphate in the nal phase of exercise (Krustrup et al., 2003b), and this fact argues against creatine phosphate having a potential inhibitory effect on performance during intense intermittent exercise. Together, these ndings suggest that temporary fatigue in soccer is not causally linked to high muscle lactate, high muscle acidosis or low muscle creatine phosphate. It has been suggested that the development of fatigue during high-intensity exercise is related to an accumulation of potassium in the muscle interstitium (Bangsbo, Madsen, Kiens, & Richter, 1996; Fitts,

experience temporary fatigue during a game. In a recent study, top-class professional male players were examined in competitive games at the highest international level by the use of time motion video analysis (Mohr et al., 2003a). The amount of highintensity running in the 5-min period immediately after the most intense 5-min interval recorded during the game was observed to be less than the average of the entire game (Figure 1). This phenomenon has also been found in top-class womens soccer (unpublished observations). This nding indicates that performance was reduced after a period of intense exercise, which could have been a result of the natural variation in the intensity in games due to tactical or psychological factors. However, in another study players performed a repeated sprint test immediately after a short-term intense period during the game and at the end of each half (Krustrup et al., 2003a). It was shown that after intense periods in the rst half, the players sprint performance was signicantly reduced, whereas at the end of the rst half the ability to perform repeated sprints was recovered (Figure 2). Together, these results suggest that soccer players experience fatigue temporarily during the game. Average blood lactate concentrations of 3 6 mmol l71 have been observed during soccer games, with individual values above 12 mmol l71 (Agnevik, 1970; Bangsbo, 1994; Ekblom, 1986; Krustrup et al., 2003a). Such values suggest that the anaerobic energy system is highly taxed during intense periods of the game. In a recent study of muscle lactate and pH during a soccer match, muscle lactate rose fourfold compared with resting values after intense periods in both halves. In concert, muscle acidosis was markedly elevated after these intense sequences (Krustrup et al., 2003a).

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Figure 1. High-intensity running in the most intense 5-min period during the game, the following 5-min period as well as the game average for elite players during competitive matches (n = 18). * Signicant difference between the 5-min period immediately after the most intense period during the game and the game average (data from Mohr et al., 2003a).

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metabolism. In line with this, Nordsborg et al. (2003) demonstrated that the rate of accumulation of interstitial potassium in exercising human leg muscle was signicantly increased when muscle pH was lowered (Bangsbo et al., 1996) due to intense arm exercise before the leg exercise. Thus, soccer players may experience temporary fatigue as a consequence of accumulation of extracellular potassium and concomitant electrical disturbances in the muscle cell. However, at present little is known about potassium turnover in the muscle during a soccer game. Fatigue at the end of a game The amount of high-intensity exercise declines towards the end of a match (Bangsbo, 1994; Bangsbo et al., 1991; Mohr et al., 2003a; Reilly & Thomas, 1976; Rienzi et al., 1998) (Figure 3a). Thus, Mohr et al. (2003a) observed that for both topclass players and professional players of a lower standard, the amount of high-intensity running was reduced in the last 15 min of a game. This was seen in both groups of players despite the fact that the topclass players exercised at a much higher intensity. Furthermore, only 3% of the players had their most intense exercise period in the last 15 min of the game, and more than 40% of the players had their least intense exercise period in the last 15 min (Figure 3b). This study only included top-class male players; however, it has also been shown in top-class female players that the exercise intensity declines in the nal phase of a game (Mohr et al., 2003b). Apparently, most players experience fatigue towards the end of the game. Accordingly, the ability to perform repeated sprints was reduced after compared with before a game (Krustrup et al., 2003a; Mohr, Krustrup, Nybo, Nielsen, & Bangsbo, 2004a; Rebelo, Krustrup, Soares, & Bangsbo, 1998) (see Figure 3). Furthermore, it was observed that substitutes who came on in the second half sprinted and ran at a high intensity (63 and 25% more, respectively) than players who played the entire game (Figure 4). Thus, the reduction in exercise intensity and sprint performance in the nal phase of games is independent of playing position, level of competition and gender, indicating that most players utilize their physical potential during a game. Blood samples taken during soccer games have shown that blood lactate concentration declines in the later stages of a game, whereas plasma free fatty acids are increased (Bangsbo, 1994; Krustrup et al., 2003a). This trend is a result of reduced exercise intensity and a change in substrate utilization towards the end of a game. An increasing lipid turnover during the game may be induced by low muscle glycogen concentrations together with ele-

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Figure 2. Performance of three 30-m sprints separated by 25 s of active recovery expressed as a percentage of the best sprint performance (n = 16). The three sprints were performed before the game and immediately after an intense period in each half of a soccer game (A, n = 16) as well as before the game and immediately after each half (B, n = 20). * Signicant difference from pre-match sprint performance (data from Krustrup et al., 2003a).

1994; Nordsborg, Mohr, Pedersen, Nielsen, & Bangsbo, 2003). At the point of exhaustion after intense short-term exercise (*5 min), the interstitial potassium concentration is elevated to around 12 mmol l71 (Nielsen et al., 2004; Nordsborg et al., 2003; Mohr et al., 2004b), which according to in vitro studies is high enough to depolarize the muscle membrane potential and reduce force development markedly (Cairnes & Dulhunty, 1995). Part of the potassium loss from the muscle during intense exercise has been proposed to occur through the KATP channels located in the sarcolemma, which tend to open when intramuscular pH declines (Davies, 1990; Davies, Standen, & Staneld, 1991). Hence, the accumulation of interstitial potassium may be closely related to the anaerobic

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M. Mohr et al. game. Recently, muscle tissue obtained before and after a soccer game was analysed for muscle bre type specic glycogen depletion, using the PASstaining technique (Krustrup et al., 2003a). It was shown that after the game about half of the type I and type IIA bres were almost or completely depleted of muscle glycogen. Thus, fatigue at the end of soccer games may be caused by glycogen depletion of individual muscle bres. Hypoglycaemia has also been suggested to cause fatigue during long-term exercise (Fitts, 1994), but the blood glucose concentration does not reach critical values during a soccer game (Bangsbo, 1994; Ekblom, 1986; Krustrup et al., 2003a). Other factors such as dehydration and hyperthermia have also been suggested as agents responsible for the development of fatigue in the later stages of a soccer game (Reilly, 1997). During a soccer game played in a normal thermal environment, many players lose more than 3 litres of uid (Bangsbo, 1994; Reilly, 1997), which may have a negative effect on performance towards the end of the match (Saltin, 1964). It has been demonstrated that a loss in body mass of only 1 2% contributes to an elevation in core temperature as well as cardiovascular strain (Hoffman et al., 1994). In soccer, the average core temperature ranges from 39.0 to 39.58C (Ekblom, 1986; Mohr et al., 2004a; Smodlaka, 1978). In these studies, individual values were above 408C, which may be high enough to induce central fatigue due to a deterioration in cerebral function (Nybo & Nielsen; 2001). However, Mohr et al. (2004a) found no differences in core temperature between the end of the rst and the second halves. In a hot and humid environment, a decrease in body uid of 4 5 litres (Mustafa & Mahmoud, 1979) can occur and hyperthermia may become a key factor in the development of fatigue in the nal stage of the game.

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vated concentrations of catecholamine (Bangsbo, 1994; Galbo, 1983). The results of studies using dietary manipulation indicate that lowered muscle glycogen contributes to the development of fatigue during long-term intermittent exercise (Balsom, Gaintanos, Sderlund, & Ekblom, 1999; Bangsbo, Nrregaard, & Thorse, 1992c). In a number of studies, muscle glycogen has been determined before, during and after a game. In a study by Saltin (1973), the muscle glycogen stores were almost depleted at half time when the pre-match levels were low (*200 mmol kg71 dry weight). When the players started the game with normal muscle glycogen concentrations (*400 mmol kg71 dry weight), the values were still rather high at half time, but below 50 mmol kg71 dry weight at the end of the game. Others obtained muscle biopsies before and after a game and found the glycogen concentrations to be *200 mmol kg71 dry weight after the game (Jacobs, Westlin, Karlson, Rasmusson, & Houghton, 1982; Smaros, 1980), indicating that muscle glycogen stores are not always depleted during a soccer

Figure 3. Distance covered by sprinting during 15-min periods throughout competitive soccer games at the highest international level (A, n = 18) and distribution of 15-min intervals with the most (&) and least (&) intense running for elite players during competitive matches (B, n = 93). * Signicant difference from the rst four 15-min periods of the game (modied from Mohr et al., 2003a).

Figure 4. High-intensity running and sprinting during the nal 15 min of a game by players participating in the entire game (&) and substitutes only participating in the second half (&). * Signicant difference between substitutes and players participating in the entire game (data from Mohr et al., 2003a).

Fatigue in soccer Impaired performance in the initial phase of the second half It has been shown that top-class male soccer players perform less high-intensity running in the rst 5 min of the second half compared with the rst half (see Figure 5). In the following two 5-min periods, no differences were found between the two halves (Mohr et al., 2003a). This pattern is also seen in the womens game (unpublished observations) and in match ofcials (Krustrup & Bangsbo, 2001; Krustrup, Mohr, & Bangsbo, 2002). Such ndings lead to the proposal that the normal routines of resting during the entire 15-min halftime interval in soccer is not an optimal preparation for the second half, which has been suggested to relate to a decline in muscle temperature (Bangsbo, 1995). Several studies have found a close relationship between muscle temperature and high-intensity exercise performance (Asmussen & Bje, 1945; Bergh & Ekblom, 1979; Houmnad et al., 1991; Sargeant, 1987; Stewart & Sleivert, 1998). In a recent study, it was shown that muscle temperature was higher than 398C after a proper warm-up before a soccer match and that it remained at this level throughout the rst half (Mohr et al., 2004a). However, during the half-time break, muscle temperature declined by around 28C when the players carried out their normal routines (Figure 6). The players also performed a sprint test before as well as after each half; the ability to sprint repeatedly was unchanged at the end of the rst half, but after the half-time break sprint performance had deteriorated (Mohr et al., 2004a). Another group of players in the same game carried out a re-warm-up period, consisting of low- to moderate-intensity aerobic activities, in the nal 7 8 min of the half-time interval. These players were able to maintain both muscle temperature and sprint performance during the half-time break (Figure 7). Moreover, a signicant negative correlation (r = 70.62) was observed between the decrease in sprint performance and the decrease in muscle temperature at half-time (Mohr et al., 2004a). These results indicate that soccer players perform better physically when they prepare for the second half by re-warming at half-time, which appears to be related to a high maintained muscle temperature. However, the high sprint performance after a re-warm-up period at half-time may also be related to physiological mechanisms independent of muscle temperature (e.g. muscle oxygen uptake kinetics are accelerated by previous exercise without a coherent change in muscle temperature) (Krustrup, Gonzalez-Alonso, Quistorff, & Bangsbo, 2001; McDonald, Pedersen, & Hughson, 1997).

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Figure 5. High-intensity running by elite soccer players during the initial phase of the rst (&) and second (&) halves of competitive games (n = 42). * Signicant difference between the two halves (data from Mohr et al., 2003a).

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Figure 6. Muscle temperature measured repeatedly during a friendly soccer game (n = 8). * Signicant difference between the same point in the two halves (data from Mohr et al., 2004a).

Figure 7. Sprint performance before and after each half with (&) and without (&) a period of active re-warm-up at half-time (n = 16). * Signicant difference from pre-match sprint performance (data from Mohr et al., 2004a).

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Summary The exercise intensity of top-class soccer players declines in periods during a game, most likely due to fatigue. These critical parts of the game may be immediately after short-term intense periods (temporary fatigue) in the initial phase of the second half and towards the end of the game. The physiological mechanisms responsible for fatigue appear to change during different periods of a match. Temporary fatigue may be related to disturbed muscle ion homeostasis. Impaired exercise ability in the rst few minutes after half-time could be explained by a markedly lowered muscle temperature at the start of the second half. The decrement in the last stage of a game may be caused by a depletion of muscle glycogen in individual bres, and under thermal stress conditions also dehydration and the concomitant hyperthermia.

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Acknowledgement The original studies by the authors presented in this review were supported by Team Danmark and The Sports Research Council (Idrttens Forskningsrad).

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