Mate, here's what I just posted about an hour ago in another thread:

Yesterday, I had a League game that I retimed. About 10 minutes into the game, I had a player injured and I went in to attempt a substitution. The moment I clicked into "Give Orders", the game crashed and I needed to reload. When I got back in, I saw 8 cones on the Training icon. I clicked into Fixtures and saw I won the game 3-2. Bear in mind this was just 20 seconds after the crash! And the injured player was not injured! And I had a few spectators watching the game and they all told me they got cut off about 10 minutes in and went back in only to surprisingly see the game having been completed!

This is definitely a bug because there was once I was watching a game in which my friend won 4-3 via a late 86th minute freekick. I texted her saying that was a bad result because she lost her win bonus but because she needed to win by 2 goals (and won by just 1) she was eliminated from the competition. You know what she said? She said she drew 3-3. I went back to my browser I confirmed it to be 4-3. I clicked back into Fixtures, it loaded, and it became 3-3! I was so disappointed I did not take a picture of the 4-3 score to prove it to her.

Shocking Nordeus.

It does leave us wondering if there really were mechanics behind the game, or is it just a money-making machine that seeks to juice the wallets of players, determining winners based on money and time spent in-game.