About the thread question, no. No matter the leg as the game have enough things to take into account to do the simulation... (I did a list... I think is in the FAQ I did in the spanish forum...) so if affect?... how can affect...¿? 2%... then, as I mentioned in the thread... there are the skills, internal side, morale, condition, and many more things I wrote... is like the captain... somethimes one think that affect in some way but, my opinion is that is simply a imagination effect.

As I always defended, when season start, one have to test and fing 1 man for the corners, 1 man. Because the game is made to make ou manage and manage is = find the betetr options, and theres one that usually is clearly better in corners, and 1 in fouls inside the team. This can change suddely if you add a new player in the team or, for natural reasons so you have to search again if the 1st started failing.
This game is not so paranoid, is very lineal in the way that players plaay,,, so, players keep the line all the carreer if you keep their level in contribution terms.
At least this is my experience after 44 seasons.