It doesn't make a **** of difference most of the time, tactics, morale, condition, etc. etc....I mean teams with 2 injuries and no replacements, players in wrong positions, teams that have no KEEPER, teams with ONE defender....and many more ridiculous scenarios....which I have encountered many times, and either lost, drawn or scraped victory. These are not isolated, like now and again a wee team beats a big team, as in real life, these things happen all the time....but 'strangely' enough, at the end of the season the bigger teams 'usually' end up at the top of the league. This is a two-bit FB gemme, and its designed to make people spend money, it's designed to hold ones interest, I mean how often does a team run away with the league? Usually it goes down to the last 2-3 games, it's designed too, programmed that way, unless your team is absolute ****e of course....thats why they have 7 promotions....In what world do 7 teams get promoted....it's all about keeping one interested and hopefully spending money.

I have never spent any money and I urge everybody else not to spend money, mebbies impact nordues and have them write a decent algorithm/game engine....I know for a fact that if you have 2 teams of similar standard, the one that has spent money to get to said standard will usually win....
So I wouldn't worry about weird things in this gemme, as i said just a cheapass lowend gemme, and should be treated as a bit of fun, there are many more actual decent managers gemmes out there....