Season 123 - Are you ready?

[Tactician]

Are you saying that the selection could be based on the bench and not the starting XI?

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No, but it could based on others things than the actual best 11 players in terms of quality. It could be the average quality of the best 14 players for example, or it could be something like Talisman said. Really, a less than 100% team matched with a 130% team is something to raise eyebrows, especially when most of the other teams of the same association were set to face to stronger opponents too. Two things that I noticed is that some of them had weaker players set up in their current first 11 selection while others had weaker players on the bench and reserves.