I had a fake result today against a team with an abandoned manager that was 30% weaker. Its just absolute nonsense. My opponent had no attackers and yet had more attacking action in the simulator than me and I was playing 5 up front with long ball. They went 2-0 up within 10 minutes. The game statistics had zero correlation to my tactics. I’m starting to believe that the score is decided before the game starts. One thing I’ve noticed is that the game engine often issues a red card to the opponent if you are winning heavily - you then think there’s gonna be a goal fest but no further goals are scored - it’s like the game engine issues the red to provide an ‘explanation’ for a heavy defeat and this acts as a trigger to stop further scoring.