With 2, I wouldn’t worry about cutting off the feet at all. But, I would have left more space above the head, and maybe even cut them off at the knees. :-)
Hardly a clash of jerseys there!!! Hope you weren’t covering this for a paper or else you’d be driven demented keeping track of the players on each team!!!
Great set of shots, agree with Paul about #2.
Best advice I ever got was to always make sure you have the players eyes (& hopefully an expression) and the ball in the shot. It stopped me taking pictures of players’ backs regardless of how good the action is. I’ll make one exception to this, sometimes I’ll try to frame a celebration using the backs of the players closest to me.
You’ve got the eyes/expressions & ball nicely in pretty much all the shots.