Either the counter formation table is wrong or something is not working at all.
BTW, TE is not always kicking my ass. I prefered to use 4-5-1V for seasons now and rarely I get beaten. It happened when it was ok to lose, but not when I'm also a lot stronger than the opponent, and add to that everything I listed. It was a perfect setting for the match and yet I lost. What should have I done to win it? If it's something hidden we should know. Is it luck? Ok, give us a luck skill so we would know. Is it the referee? Add a referee temperament indication (like Online Soccer Manager) so we would know. If you don't, we will still play blindly for more years to come, and I'm tired of that. At this point I still don't know how SA work because I have CK and FK specialists and they aren't profitable. I have a DR that scores more hat tricks than my ST that barely score a goal in a game.
Just by looking at everyone's suggestions on the forum (even from the mods), it's worrying that still nobody has a 100% clear idea on how this game works. It's the formation, it's the strategy, the morale or something else. Everyone has his own idea, and that shouldn't be right.

On a side note if someone is interested or either p****d off like I am, I'm trying another game and I'm talking about it in the off-topic section. It has a lot of features that TE is missing. Surely it's more transparent, has more strategy options and is more clear about the condition and player's special abilities (that are a given from the start and you have to train it). Even if it's not perfect, I just hope that Nordeus (and maybe the players) will get some prompts from it.