## 3 Results

Table 1: Statistical results for physical performance metrics across playing positions: test statistics, significance levels, and effect sizes. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c} \hline \hline  & & **95\% Confidence Interval Mean** & & \\ \hline  & & **Mean** & **Upper** & **Lower** & **Std. Deviation** \\ \hline  & CDF & 4.585 & 4.657 & 4.514 & 0.152 \\ Distance Zone 1 (km) & CMF & 4.622 & 4.831 & 4.412 & 0.485 \\ Distance Zone 1 (km) & FWD & 4.905 & 5.210 & 4.600 & 0.365 \\  & WDF & 4.551 & 4.808 & 4.294 & 0.360 \\  & WMF & 4.658 & 4.796 & 4.520 & 0.250 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Descriptive statistics for the distance covered and speed metrics by playing position: means, confidence intervals, and standard deviations. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c} \hline \multicolumn{6}{c}{**95\% Confidence Interval Mean**} \\ \hline  & CDF & 2.271 & 2.429 & 2.112 & 0.338 \\  & CMF & 3.300 & 3.539 & 3.060 & 0.553 \\ Distance Zone 2 (km) & FWD & 1.746 & 1.867 & 1.626 & 0.144 \\  & WDF & 2.574 & 2.805 & 2.343 & 0.324 \\  & WMF & 2.349 & 2.710 & 1.989 & 0.651 \\ \hline  & CDF & 0.512 & 0.561 & 0.463 & 0.104 \\ Distance Zone 3 (km) & CMF & 0.902 & 0.990 & 0.814 & 0.204 \\ *\({}^{\ddagger}\) & FWD & 0.664 & 0.803 & 0.524 & 0.167 \\  & WDF & 0.789 & 0.903 & 0.675 & 0.159 \\  & WMF & 0.718 & 0.871 & 0.565 & 0.276 \\ \hline  & CDF & 0.058 & 0.079 & 0.036 & 0.046 \\ Distance Zone 4 (km) & CMF & 0.138 & 0.175 & 0.100 & 0.087 \\  & FWD & 0.121 & 0.170 & 0.073 & 0.058 \\  & WDF & 0.132 & 0.189 & 0.075 & 0.080 \\  & WMF & 0.135 & 0.177 & 0.092 & 0.077 \\ \hline  & CDF & 8.228 & 8.411 & 8.044 & 0.392 \\ Total Distance (km) & CMF & 9.647 & 9.977 & 9.317 & 0.763 \\ *\({}^{\ddagger}\) & FWD & 8.247 & 8.534 & 7.960 & 0.343 \\  & WDF & 8.801 & 9.229 & 8.373 & 0.598 \\  & WMF & 8.605 & 9.102 & 8.108 & 0.898 \\ \hline  & CDF & 85.275 & 87.387 & 83.164 & 4.511 \\ Relative Distance & CMF & 99.770 & 103.242 & 96.297 & 8.030 \\ Covered (m/min) *\({}^{\ddagger\lx@paragraphsign}\) & FWD & 86.065 & 89.993 & 82.137 & 4.698 \\  & WDF & 90.911 & 95.937 & 85.885 & 7.026 \\  & WMF & 89.258 & 94.708 & 83.808 & 9.842 \\ \hline  & CDF & 30.150 & 32.538 & 27.762 & 5.102 \\  & CMF & 55.739 & 60.720 & 50.759 & 11.518 \\ Number of Sprints *\({}^{\ddagger\lx@paragraphsign}\) & FWD & 42.750 & 50.251 & 35.249 & 8.972 \\  & WDF & 49.200 & 55.135 & 43.265 & 8.297 \\  & WMF & 44.400 & 53.839 & 34.961 & 17.045 \\ \hline  & CDF & 0.723 & 0.784 & 0.661 & 0.132 \\ Total Sprint Distance (km) *\({}^{\ddagger\lx@paragraphsign}\) & FWD & 1.380 & 1.528 & 1.232 & 0.341 \\  & FWD & 0.995 & 1.201 & 0.789 & 0.246 \\  & WDF & 1.190 & 1.364 & 1.016 & 0.243 \\  & WMF & 1.116 & 1.362 & 0.870 & 0.444 \\ \hline  & CDF & 28.376 & 28.978 & 27.774 & 1.287 \\ Maximum Speed (km/h) *\({}^{\ddagger\lx@paragraphsign}\) & FWD & 30.237 & 30.938 & 29.536 & 1.620 \\  & FWD & 31.087 & 32.590 & 29.585 & 1.797 \\  & WDF & 30.365 & 31.270 & 29.460 & 1.265 \\  & WMF & 30.910 & 32.258 & 29.562 & 2.434 \\ \hline  & CDF & 154.550 & 163.462 & 145.638 & 19.041 \\ Accelerations & CMF & 186.261 & 198.365 & 174.157 & 27.991 \\ (\(\geq\)2.0 m/s\({}^{2}\)) *\({}^{\lx@paragraphsign}\lx@paragraphsign\) & FWD & 123.250 & 136.780 & 109.720 & 16.184 \\  & WDF & 160.500 & 178.655 & 142.345 & 25.378 \\  & WMF & 148.400 & 178.743 & 118.057 & 54.792 \\ \hline  & CDF & 150.500 & 160.523 & 140.477 & 21.417 \\ Decelerations & CMF & 195.348 & 207.679 & 183.017 & 28.516 \\ (\(\leq\)\(-\)2.0 m/s\({}^{2}\)) *\({}^{\lx@paragraphsign}\)\({\ddagger\lx@paragraphsign}\) & FWD & 118.750 & 134.861 & 102.639 & 19.271 \\  & WDF & 160.400 & 172.750 & 148.050 & 17.264 \\  & WMF & 141.867 & 168.339 & 115.394 & 47.803 \\ \hline \end{tabular} Note: The following symbols denote significant pairwise differences: CDF vs. CMF (*), CDF vs. FWD (#), CDF vs. WDF (#), CDF vs. FWD (#), CMF vs. FWD (%), CMF vs. WDF (#), FWD vs. WDF (A).  
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Table 2: _Cont._Figure 1: An inter-positional comparison of movement demands across distance zones and the total distance.