About the Authors

Neval Grazette

Contributed equally to this work with: Neval Grazette, John G. Morris

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sport Science, Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Research Centre, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Scot McAllister

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Performance Services and Applied Research, Global Football, City Football Group, Manchester, United Kingdom

Chin Wei Ong

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Performance Services and Applied Research, Global Football, City Football Group, Manchester, United Kingdom

Caroline Sunderland

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Sport Science, Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Research Centre, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Mary E. Nevill

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Sport Science, Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Research Centre, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

John G. Morris

Contributed equally to this work with: Neval Grazette, John G. Morris

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

john.morris@ntu.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Sport Science, Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Research Centre, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

City Football Group provided support in the form of salaries for authors CWO and SM, but they did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.