{"id":902739,"date":"2026-05-01T04:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/does-running-more-really-decide-matches\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:22:26","slug":"does-running-more-really-decide-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/does-running-more-really-decide-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Does running more really decide matches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Graham \u00a0 Discussion around physical output has intensified after it emerged that Chelsea have been outpaced in distance covered in every Premier League match this season. The statistic raised eyebrows, especially after Everton ran 6 km more in their 3-0 victory, leading to a straightforward conclusion that effort levels were behind Chelsea\u2019s struggles&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfootballfacts.com\/articles\/does-running-more-really-decide-matches\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Qiana Pepper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Graham \u00a0 Discussion around physical output has intensified after it emerged that Chelsea have been outpaced in distance covered in every Premier League match this season. The statistic raised eyebrows, especially after Everton ran 6 km more in their 3-0 victory, leading to a straightforward conclusion that effort levels were behind Chelsea\u2019s struggles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[847,92,192],"tags":[9323,5661],"class_list":{"0":"post-902739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-really","8":"category-running","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-really","11":"tag-running"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}