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Attackers are supposed to take advantage of producing deceptive actions in competitive ball sports, particularly in penalty situations. We conducted a scoping review of the experimental literature to scrutinize whether penalty takers do indeed benefit from using deceptive actions in penalty situations, especially by increasing the likelihood to score a goal. Studies using video-based and in-situ tasks in which soccer and handball goalkeepers try to save a penalty were evaluated. Results showed that penalty takers' manipulation of spatial information available to the goalkeeper during deception (i.e., by using misleading and/or disguising actions) is less effective in in-situ than video-based studies. We argue that this difference occurs because goalkeepers adapt differently to the spatiotemporal constraints in the video-based and in-situ tasks. Goalkeepers appear to prioritize picking up spatial information in video-based tasks while prioritizing temporal information in-situ tasks. Therefore, the manipulation of spatial information appears to be less effective in the more representative in-situ studies than in video-based studies. In order to deceive, penalty takers are advised to manipulate temporal information during on-field penalty situations.

This scoping review's aim is to identify, highlight and summarise research that adopts an Ecological Dynamics perspective on any sport science related topic such as athlete training and performance, talent identification, decision making etc.

Whilst it is widely documented that performers’ can deceive by manipulating their unfolding kinematics, it is yet to be explored whether the contextual pattern of actions can be manipulated to deceive an opponent or the role of such information in employing a successful deceptive action. Previous research has shown that anticipation and interception performance in fast-ball sports declines when facing an action that violates a previous pattern (incongruent) compared to when facing an action that continues the preceding pattern (congruent) (Gray, 2002; Loffing et al., 2015). However, researchers are yet to explore whether the ability to successfully deceive an opponent is influenced by manipulating the congruence of the deceptive action with the preceding pattern. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to determine how manipulating the sequence of a penalty takers kick direction influences an opposing goalkeeper’s ability to successfully anticipate and intercept deceptive actions. The research aims to investigate whether football goalkeepers will be less successful at saving deceptive penalty kicks that are incongruent with a previous pattern compared to deceptive kicks performed when there is no previous pattern (no congruence), and deceptive kicks that are congruent with a previous pattern. The findings of this research will determine to what extent where the deceptive action is placed in a sequence is important to its success in misdirecting an opponent.

Integrative review critically considering the effect of video feedback as a facet of PA on learning in applied sport settings. The review is framed in consideration of practice design, specifically the delivery, feedback environment, scheduling, and collaboration between coach(es) and athlete(s).

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-spo-10.1177_17479541221122412 for Visual exploratory activity and practice design: Perceptions of experienced coaches in professional football academies by David Eldridge, Chris Pocock, Craig Pulling, Philip Kearney and Matt Dicks in International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching