I read somewhere here that 0-0 is the hardest result to achieve, maybe that is wrong but all my trolls this season have been 0-0 draws and there was nothing I could do to change them.
Yesterday I could tell by looking at the animation that I wasn't gonna win (changed formation, tactics, mentality still nothing). You know when there is a Counter attack and your players move rapidly towards the goal, that usually results in a goal 90% of the times I got two of those yesterday and no goal. Another animation that indicates a goal will be scored is when the corner cross finds the mark and he shots (this also results in a goal most of the time) but not yesterday and this was from my rival. The animation suggested that my players had forgotten how to shoot and where all hitting birds in the sky or some poor astronaut (like Sergio Ramos lol).
This for me is just another sign that the game is calculated beforehand.