I will try to make this brief. I am relatively a rookie here so please bare with me for a minute.
My question is about how accurate these percentage of teams are when they go head to head? Last season, I went into the last two matches of the season, one being a CL final, with about
9 percent superiority in team strength (as shown via the percentage next to team name) and had my team condition near perfect, morals high, and had 3 or 4 players in fire. I ended up losing both games and both to teams with, as I mentioned, about 10 percent weaker! In the CL final I matched my opponent's formation and almost in all areas of the field I had stronger players but that did not help.
My only conclusion was that I got my tactics completely wrong but it was puzzling to me that in the match report, for both games that I lost under similar conditions, it stated that "
the opponent were the favorite in the fixture" how is that possible and don't the percentages mean anything? I understand that it does not guarantee a win but it should give you an indication of where the two teams stand, no?
So back to the question I started this with, how accurate are these percentage and why would it say "the opponent were the favorite in the fixture".
Anyone can explain this mystery to me? How does a team with 4 players on fire and about 10 percent stronger lose two games in a row to weaker opponents?