In real life, managers do make significant changes. It might be not evident to some people, especially those who only watch TV, read the newspaper, and/or use the internet and refer to the 'formations' shown. In many cases, the preparations and the tactics (this include the formations) to be used are different. The difference in tactics can be seen if you analyse each match, the positioning of the players, each of their roles and so on. You will likely see that there are differences (sometimes big differences) to the formations shown or the formations that was said to be used.
In a game like Top Eleven, options are very limited in terms of tactics. There is clear lack of orders, especially individual orders for each player. But, this is understandable because this game is meant to be more simple as compared to other games like Football Manager and so on.
There is a big difference between football (including football management) in real life and football in a game like Top Eleven. Some people, including some users on the forum here (I am not referring to you Medo, nor do I am referring to the users that commented in this thread only) don't even know what they are taking about, especially those that try to justify things occurring in this game with events that happen in the past or how things are currently are in real life football. But, given that this a football management simulation game, many things can be done so that despite being simple, it can simulate things properly, at least to an extent that the main things concerning football logic are respected.