Quote Originally Posted by Skidz View Post
Have you updated your team?, are your players getting old?, are you constantly changing formations?, do you buy hot prospects and acadamy players?, how ofton are you training? Keeping your players-condition up?, are you playing players out off position?, are you resting your players by rotating them regular? What is your team and formation?
Thanks for the reply!

I keep my team young as best as I can, team name is Soria FC. Oldest player now for example is 25 yrs. I consistently upgrade my team to continue to keep up with the new level. I'm not sure if this is the problem or what but it worked just fine for the first 10 seasons. At the end of the season I sell my 4 star players if they aren't close to becoming 5 stars fairly soon. I do my best to rotate all players and keep them as fresh as I possibly can. I usually train (all three, stretch, condition and match) immediately after the new day starts to ensure that the team trains prior to the days games. From season 4 up until last season when this started happening I played a 4-1-2-1 narrow diamond. Last year after a string of bad results I started using formations with the intent of countering what the other player was doing. It worked for the most part but still wasn't enough. This year it's even worse. 3 seasons ago I would play a team of higher quality playing a 4-4-2 flat and as soon as I saw that formation I was licking my chops with my 4-1-2-1 and beat them consistently. Last year I started getting beat down by 4-4-2 against my 4-1-2-1 by both higher quality and lower quality opponents. First round of cup I lost 3-0, 3-0 to a team of at least 7 points less quality than mine. Champions league I've been getting beat down by lesser teams and same with the league. I never play players out of position.