Do players of your country of origin "over achieve" on their ratings?

[Sol Survivor]

Just a thought while making a couple of comments on other threads. Do players who are the same nationality as you're set up as punch above their weight? It's just now having a 30 rated 5* centre mid injured and my 34 rated 5* goalie injured that I've noticed that my 23 rated 3* centre mid and my 17 rated 2* goalie have been rating 7 or above each game and seemingly doing a better job that their higher rated counterparts did. Both these reserves happen to be the same nationality as me, so just got me thinking..............

[Buffs Mad]

No. They were out of the team but came in and did well. Nothing more.

I dropped my previous strikers for failing to perform and got a new one and he performed better. I then played the reserves to avoid injury before a Final and my reserve strikers played so well I kept them in. Once they drop their form they're out again.