This is one of the examples where no matter what you do, your team will not win (or will have big hidden disadvantages) because it has already been decided by the program that you will have the highest probability to lose this particular match for whatever reason(s). And you know what; there are some similarities with what happened to you and what happen to me for a particular match which was in a knock-out round too. I won the away match 2-1 against a weaker team (weaker by around 5 points) using appropriate tactics. For the return match, I used another set of appropriate tactics. During this match, I could clearly see how the game has decided against me such that everything will be against my team and how everything was set so that I will lose the match and get knocked out of the competition. A player who never missed a penalty before, a 6 star player winger, missed a penalty at a point in the match where the score was 1-1. The opponent score in the last minutes of the game, and I lost the round on penalties. My team dominated possession and had the most shots. And it is not only about that particular match; during this particular period (between a few days before and after that particular match) most of my players suffered a sudden significant drop in form where nothing could be done to change it. I 'grinded' two 1-0 wins during this period with most players acting like 3-5 stars less than their displayed quality, and I lost my first league match 1-0 after almost 3 seasons. This team that beat my team 1-0 was weaker than my team by around 7-8 quality points, and on his next home league match he drew 0-0 with a team weaker by 10 quality points - a team who used a messy formation consisting of only 1 DC and 1 side defender. This injection of bad form could be intentional as I was 10 points clear at the top in the league, and the team at 2nd place consisted mainly of players bought from the scout list (hence, most probably a significant token buyer). It is as if the game did not want the competition to seem be over yet for the 2nd and 3rd positioned teams, giving them some reason to spend more money for this season.
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