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Good start to the paper. More of the dialog should be in the form of critique and comparison and contrast of the studies. In future drafts you will want to start synthesizing the research studies in a more holistic way, by comparing and contrasting the studies in a continuous flow of analysis.
Right now, I think the important focus is securing research that is more targeted to your topic. Make sure you're exhausting all of the databases as you search this topic, because I suspect you might need to narrow it down a bit more so that you cover all of the research on your topic (and not have too many studies to review). I still think this is an issue with your topic selection, even though I'm only counting 3 references in your list that are specific to sport psychology and are research studies (Polman et al., Waters et al., Henningsen et al.).
It will be better to include a definition from a specific sport psychology source for "home field advantage."
The Carré et al. study is more physiology related, so you need to either investigate the psychology aspects of that study or omit it.
Excellent draft. Your paper is nearly ready to go. This paper as it is would get a very high score. The improvements I recommend are to add more depth examination of the studies. Do more comparison and contrast as you discuss conclusions. You have the minimum, but adding a few more papers you may have would make the review more complete on the subject.
The other points I have are more minor, but still important for a polished paper. Eliminate the contractions, since this is not appropriate in scientific writing. There are a few other elements that slip into informal prose, like the term "refs" and "There may be multiple issues going on here." Also, stay consistent with pronouns, and only use third person.
Great attention to APA format. This is very good.