man .. the game has no logic in 10-20% of times, in the rest , it is all about ur players, and formations .. i never bought a token and was able to make up the difference by choosing right formation to counter opposition, and give them bonus and make sure they are fresh to compensate difference on quality of players and it worked many times and not in others, bcz they simply had better team
agree the game don't make sense at times, but you are not helping ur case by sticking to one formation .. that work only for teams with full scouts where bad formation can have less effect on results bcz of gap in quality .. apparently you are not one of those token buyers, so why u stick to that policy?