It's true what you mentioned. It's a small effect so we can't count on it to guarantee us anything. Anyway, you played long enough to see alot of undeserving semi active teams beat strong active teams right? We can't beat what the game engine wants.
For training SAs, I think it not about low level. It's about world class training and choosing the drill which the players has the lowest skill. I followed one of the guides. I can't rem which one it was now. I think I used press the play which was my only world class at that time and I used it on attackers with very low defensive skills. I only bought 2 18 year old FTs attackers this season due to budget constraints early this season.
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