How can I win a title? Looks like the game doesn't want me to...

[pvhung429]

I believe the main problem is that your team have difficulties to overcome opponents with similar quality. Probably your attracting strategy is not appropriate to play against similar quality or stronger teams. Probably, you did not make best decision during head to head matches with these opponents.

In low levels, usually there are only several competitive teams. These teams can usually handle the weak teams easily regardless of tactic, formations, etc. Their tactics may not be appropriate to play against similar quality team. But it is difficult to realize this because there are too few competitive matches.

In my opinion, there is no best tactic or formations. The optimum formation for your team depends on different factors like characteristics of players, compositions of players in the team, and your opponents. Personally I prefer using more conservative tactics to play against strong teams.

Some mangers suggest not watching matches. But in my opinion, in match strategic changes is important. Generally, during a match, I will try to feel the under-performing players (now its far easier with live match ratings) and then substitute them at around 60 minutes. But I will also make special changes to explore vulnerabilities of opponents, or fix vulnerabilities of my teams.

To build a team, it is important to find or identify some reliable players as key players and build around them. The key players are not necessarily the highest quality players.

I like rotate players to save green packs. However, if there is only 1 match per day, I will tend to continue to use similar formations and players.

Good players have bad days. Sometimes, if any player is in bad form, I will bench him even if he has high quality and even is key player.

I don't think buying tokens to build team at low levels is good practice. Managers will rely too much on qualities of their players for success. Low level competitions are good platform to try out different ways to win matches.

Sorry that I do not organize well. Just speaking out some of my thoughts for your reference.

Thank you for your words. I find it interesting that recently, whenever I watch a match, I lose or draw but whenever I'm busy with my school work and unable to watch the game, I usually win.
Example just today, I had 2 League games, 1 against a stronger team, 1 against similar (not much weaker). I didn't watch first one (strong one) because of school, I won 4-3 with 3W-2(DMC)-3W-2.
And the second game (the similar one) I watched it and I lost 3-1 even though I scored first and dominated the game in the first 30 mins.
In both games my opponents didn't watch the game.

My best player I would say is a young MC 4 stars and a DMC 5 stars and also my 2 ST (not always)
I like 4-5-1 V style but now last season and this new season with 2 (in my opinion) good ST, I changed to 3-2-3-2 (that is 3W-2xDMC- 3W-2) because there was a Top Eleven fan page on FB posted something about it is one of the great formations to try. So if I play against team with 3ST, should I change it back to 4DC?
I sometimes just change the Tactics from like Mixed to Both Flanks depends on opponents' formations. But I'm really not so sure if when should I play Off-side trap, when not to Counter-attack (sometimes the assistant manager just tell me the opponent knows how to stop my counter-attack and I'm not sure what to change)

Thank you

[cookizzz]

Thank you for your words. I find it interesting that recently, whenever I watch a match, I lose or draw but whenever I'm busy with my school work and unable to watch the game, I usually win.
Example just today, I had 2 League games, 1 against a stronger team, 1 against similar (not much weaker). I didn't watch first one (strong one) because of school, I won 4-3 with 3W-2(DMC)-3W-2.
And the second game (the similar one) I watched it and I lost 3-1 even though I scored first and dominated the game in the first 30 mins.
In both games my opponents didn't watch the game.

I prefer attending matches whenever possible to earn blue/green/red packs because it's my major sources to get these. But I also think that match result is not bad for matches I could not attend. So maybe we ought not to attend a match if we cannot concentrate, or just login in last minute to get the packs.

But for important matches, I prefer to attend and control the match on my hand. Honestly, I have some confidence on my in-match decisions.

My best player I would say is a young MC 4 stars and a DMC 5 stars and also my 2 ST (not always)
I like 4-5-1 V style but now last season and this new season with 2 (in my opinion) good ST, I changed to 3-2-3-2 (that is 3W-2xDMC- 3W-2) because there was a Top Eleven fan page on FB posted something about it is one of the great formations to try. So if I play against team with 3ST, should I change it back to 4DC?
I sometimes just change the Tactics from like Mixed to Both Flanks depends on opponents' formations. But I'm really not so sure if when should I play Off-side trap, when not to Counter-attack (sometimes the assistant manager just tell me the opponent knows how to stop my counter-attack and I'm not sure what to change)

Thank you

I think the 4-5-1v is quite good formation for most teams as it is well balanced. It is easy to use. 3-2-3-2 is looked fine but I don't feel comfortable to use only 1 DC. Personally I prefer to use 4 defenders. It reflects that my team is defensive mind. Occasionally, I push up one defender and use 3 defenders. But at least 2 of them are DC.

4-5-1v and 4-4-2 are my preferred formation. But recently my team mainly use 4-5-1v or 4-3-1(AMR,AML)-1. With some multiple position players, my team can easily switch to many different formations e.g. 4-1-2-1-2, 4-5-1, 4-1-4-1, 4-4-1-1, etc so as to counter different opponents. I agree that the optimum formation is mainly dependent on players available. But I choose my players and build my team so that I can use my preferred formations.

I am not good at tactic and seldom make changes on these. I use mixed or both flank focus passing exactly the same way as you do. I rarely use offside trap (only temporarily use it during some matches). I usually use counter attack. I am not sure if these tactic are good, but at least I won some competitions (Yes, both my teams are league champion is last season) with these tactics.