Quote Originally Posted by ponzu View Post
I don't know if L7 will be hard as it just started. Everything was easy through L5. L6 was a nightmare as I was losing to teams with lower Q. When I got spanked 0:7 by a team that on paper was my equal, I went to the forums for the first time. That's where I found out that formations matter and that some formations can counter other formations. I played the last game of the season against the same guy (he had clinched the league with 1 loss by then) and beat him 3:1 on his pitch......
Level bug is common, i've seen many team with 1x, 2x level but started playing only weeks before me.

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Take this as an example, but dont worry, their level is nothing more than a digital number, all other factors are the same as yours.

Lv 7 vs Lv 10 Cup, I faced this too, last season my team (lv5) usually had to fight with lv 7-8 team. Because we train our players too much, our top 14 players have high rating, so you end up with +1, +2 level teams, and if there is a manager who uses sell-away strategy, his level will be +3 than your. This happens.

You may find it hard to win the tittles (league, Cup, CL) because in your server there are many good managers, you can't do anything about this. I have learned that from million of Top 11 players on the world, we are devided to many servers and stuck in this server till the rest of our life. So if you're ultra unlucky, your server is filled with time-spenders or money-spenders.