Comment on: "Monitoring of Post-match Fatigue in Professional Soccer: Welcome to the Real World"/Reply

[...]it is not appropriate that a 20-year-old central defender with no injury history performs the same load as a 32-year-old midfielder with multiple soft-tissue injuries 36 h post-match. [...]if PMF monitoring can be used to get a player to watch part of the field session, or adapt their physical work in the gym, this could be valuable in preparing individuals and, by inference, the team. [...]we must acknowledge that we are in a fortunate position where resources may be more readily available to ease practical burdens than might be possible at other clubs. [...]we would also like to thank the players and coaching staff at Arsenal Football Club. [...]Lewin and O'Driscoll [1] discussed how they have experimented with different methods (e.g. technology, software and staffing) to help ease logistical burden, while the progressive gathering of data has enabled them to refine collection and analysis.