Season 78 - Are you ready?

[Tactician]

My team suffered it's first loss today, after almost 1.5 seasons, that is from when I made my comeback. A 1-1 draw away and a 2-3 loss at home against a slightly weaker team knock my team out of the Champions League at the 1/8 stage. I pushed my players to the max on the pitch, and some of their conditions were as low as 60% after the match.

From what I saw today, I think that there is something fishy going on with this game. It appears that for some games or knock-out stages the engine has already decided who is going to win or who is going to go through this round. I also suspect a sort relationship with the competition grouping and draws that are done at the start of the season.

It might still be possible that the other team won based on tactics only (or based on form and tactics), but I highly doubt it.

I experienced something quit similar last year (2015), where I won the away match 2-1, but lost on penalties after a 1-2 loss at home. By the way things were going during the match, it was evident how the match was fixed.

Also, I suspect that at some point the engine favours a team significantly so that this team wins the competition or earn related achievements (win the competition, win the treble, break the winning streak of a team and so on).

So, briefly, I can say that some things in this game are made to happen, that is they do not depend much on you or on how you manage your team.

I had a plan for reviving my other team (Virtual F.C) around end of May-start of June. I planned to purchase significant amount of tokens and build a 'super' team, a team that I intended to build so that it will have all the qualities needed to play how I want to play. But, after what I saw, I will probably not do it. It would be a waste of money if such bad things are there in this game. It is still best to play this game with little to no expenditure from your pocket.