Game still manages to surprise me (not in a good way)

[khris]

Random result is part of this game nowdays, no matter what tactic, i manage 2-3 teams, same tactic, different result, one team got jinxed every season... ffs

Internal programming, thats all.
If you play the same tactic in all your teams, you need to understand that the engine assigns internal roles that are calibrated and limited to create realism.
That's why we say that counters doesnt exist, technically the game doesn't understand this concept, about tactics. All is about internal roles and power assigned, and about understand how your team has been designed, because you'll never be able to buy 2 identic STs and see how intentionally, you can create x2** perfect players by just investing boosters. The players have roles setting a cap to the performance, so you can have, a key player, some players that will contribute following a pattern or variable, scorers, assistants (predetermined, this means that players have animations linked, and as a football simulator the game needs to assign goal animations, assists, FKs, corners, SAs showing up etc) ... then the simulation isnt "lineal", doesnt count all posible factors that can affect a match (condition, morale, win bonus, each setting...) it counts all factors and these are in ON-OFF, meaning that the game creates scenarios with only few determinant factors.

Then just remember that the most important thing int his game, is simply the possesion bar. It tells you the state of the game control, so first of all, find the center of the bar, which is displaced always from the 50% and try to overcome this virtual center by switching settings, because the game is reactive and once you switch from one focus passing side to another, or one mentality to another, you'll see the bar reacting almost instantanely.

You can not use tactics in a logical way. You can not, create intentionally a key player.

Try to learn about internal programming and scenario lecture.