I think that in associations attacking football has much more advantage than defensive.
This is the reason we see crazy scores and results, one of the reasons to be literal.

I have not won a single game playing defensive.
Today i played against a 145% team (ex-exploiter of course)

First leg playing def, he scored 5 goals pretty easy.
Second game I played attacking, result 2-2 and he scored ata 80', i could have won.