Here's your update ... played first half with 4-4-2 and then switched to 4-4-1-1 the second. None of his players have better skills than mine and I beat him in possesion and on every statistic, yet he beat me 1:0 ...

This might be my emotions talking, but I'm starting to think that the league winner is predefined - this is my third season and I've never beaten the top league team, even though they have always been weaker in skills and I have never seen them attend matches.