The reserves’ physical restoration

In order for you to restore a player’s fitness, you have to put them among the subs or reserves. Players outside of the team, the main 23, cannot restore their fitness conditionImmediately after a game, you can visualize the fitness decrement and increment for each player, even your opponents’, on the Player Ratings menu / Fitness, such as the image below exemplifies.  It’s not only possible for you to see how many fitness points each player has lost, but also you’re able to Fifa Coins see how many points each substitute eventually restored (lower left corner).

The reserves’ physical restoration isn't indicated in this menu, though. Also, none of this is available when it is a friendly, which by the way doesn't make sense for us since there is fitness decrease for them as well.

In that case, the keeper finished the game with as many points as he had startedLosing and restoring fitness depends on the type of matches you’re playingIf you put them among the reserves or substitutes, they’ll be able to lose and restore fitness points when it’s one of the following modes in FUT 15:Single Player SeasonsSingle Player TournamentsOnline SeasonsOnline TournamentsOnline Single MatchTOTW Challenge.

If you put them among the reserves or substitutes, they’ll be able to lose but not restore fitness points when it’s one of the following modes in Fifa 17 Coins 15:Online FriendliesPlay a Friend’s SquadNo matter the match mode players can always lose fitness points. Although, fitness restoration is only possible if it’s not a friendly match.General rule, a field player can lose between 7 and 0 fitness points along the match, although on most cases only 3 to 5 points are lost.
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