Quote Originally Posted by Sillybq View Post
Hmmm mine was 5-1 as well and so was maloukees. Pure coincidence?
The draw takes the quality of your best 14 players irrespective of whether they are on your bench or in your youth academy.

So the guide recommends to keep 8 of your best players and 6 of your worst. Sell the rest and Release your youth players. If your youth players are the lowest quality you have, keep them.

https://forum.topeleven.com/tutorial...w-win-cup.html
Tried and tested with 8 players would surely work. Usually that would give you an advantage of close to 30%+ in finals, unless drawn with similar manipulating teams or scout buying players (Last season a league opponent did buy 8 scout players to fight for the title with me and he still lost , so this does happen even when it is rare).

And if one has 5 x 1* players, even 9 players would work, as I have done by bringing 9 players of average quality of 120%. Best opponent is ‘only’ 95% in CL final and 83% in Cup final when both started their season around 72-73%, when mine starts the season around 110% with 2 additions of 90% players to complete the first-11 and now is 121% after strengthening.

Will update further on 10 players brought forward next season to see if it works as well.