Mythbusters of top eleven

[Tactician]

About 3 months ago, the asso groups I had with my 2 teams played in the same tournament and NIK (from khris group) played vs my reserves, ManU (of madflo group).
So I had the chance to make some observations in "official" games.
In the first game, I set in one team hard tackling and in the other easy tackling.
Absolutely no difference in the game play.
I tried to find some hints for those choices of mine, but no.

In the second leg of the tournament, as NIK won the first game with 2-0, I tried to help a little ManU so to have equal points.
So I set some abnormal orders in NIK
Defense, no counters, easy tackling, off-side trap, man to man mix pass, from the middle (but having AML-AMR in the team).
Couldn't observe anything about orders, NIK won again

I made tests using testing accounts (all at the same level) by making them play against each other. There was not much sense in terms of what was happening on the pitch in terms of the orders used, there was not much sense in the assistant manager advice for both sides (given that I knew the orders on each side), and there were no effects when the orders were changed be it just like that or by following the assistant managers advice. Those were for friendly matches, but clearly it was like watching pre-recorded matches or using a keyboard without its cable plugged in.