Should agree with you also about the advice of our assistant - this is the most stupid thing ever and it's existance is really unknown. I read it sometimes just for fun. It's really stupid when he tells that we must attack more because we may lose it when in fact you are winning 7-0. Or to read that the opponent's team is a favourite of the match when in fact he is 30-40% lower than you.

Now regarding friendly matches - I have already told it in some other posts that this feature is now absolutely useless and spending stamina or green packs for it makes it even more useless. BUT (important note)

This season for the first time in 55 seasons I had some strange experience. In the 1/4 of champions league I had to play against a team who is in my friends list. The guy is 30% lower than me and during all the previous seasons I had easy wins against him. But not this season.

Just 30-45 min before each game he offered me friendly games. I was not on the match but I easily won both games 2-8 and 2-7 (quite possible that he lost both games on purpose). But during our official matches in the champions league for the first time I couldn't do anything. My team couldn't score a singe goal having 11 shots on target and 24 shots in general. So he passed to the next stage with 1-1 and 0-1 which seemed stranhe to me. I checked his previous games during this champions league and noticed that he had played this trick with friendly matches with several opponents stronger than him. At the same time in the semi-final his opponent was equal but he didn't play any friendly (most probably they are not friends) so he lost both matches 2-0.

Is it some kind of new glitch or just a coincidence? Anyway, I highly recommend to Nordeus to check it