You must be a pretty terrible manager if you play 2 games against the same guy, lose and play the same tactics the second time around. There will always be randomness - but it's silly to constantly debate information we don't have access to.

Nothing much changed for me with the update, though I was surprised I won one of my 4 matches since then, and by a large margin...it hasn't changed anything for me. It will be interesting with the new rests sitaution, I imagine people will be VPNing the hell out of the game now!