Originally Posted by
iptables
I believe the reason is the training drills level + how often on a daily basis, you and them are training.
Had the same opinion in one of my matches, and I know the opposite team WAS training harder than me, since I was in the 4 competitions at once ( League, Cup, CL, Asso ).
Haven't doing extra training per daily basis, because I wanted to save some condition.
In the other hand, he was NOT in the Cup, so he had more time to train and recover, which led to a 0:1 loss for me + the assisstant's opinion, that they were ultimately better prepared.
Morale was superb, so I exclude it as an option, as well as the extra cash reward for wining.