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27 minutes ago, Seb Wassell said:

I don't really see what that proves? Man City lost 4-3 in the league and drew the other league match. Champions League does not form part of the Premier League so don't see how that matters. Honestly, I don't know if a team has ever gone through a season and only lost once, but had that loss be 6-0. It just doesn't add up. And even if you count the 3-0 game, 3-0 is a fairly common score in Football. 6-0 is not, and it makes no sense whatsoever that a team can lose 6-0 and be otherwise undefeated.

And I'm pretty sure Liverpool didn't hit the post more times than they scored in the games where they dropped points.

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1 hour ago, herne79 said:

Your shots to shots on target ratio is consistently poor.  As this seems to be a common theme for you, I'd suggest there is something tactical you could do to improve things here.  Open a thread in the Tactics forum, post your tactical set up, the issues you've been having and what (if anything) you do during matches to adapt and somebody may be able to give you some ideas.

I don't see how this matters in the context of my post. I consistently have more shots on target than the opposition. Why do I need to have 2/3/4x as many as the opposition just to win? Also, a lot of my shots are from corners, because the game gives you a stupid number of them. 

1 hour ago, bar333 said:

Not sure I understand, your entire reasoning is "I beat them 6-0 in one game ergo I'm better and should have better results elsewhere too"? 

Football doesn't work like that. Liverpool were by far the better team in the head-to-head games VS Man City last season, with a much bigger sample size than one game, but still no one would argue were a better team overall. Ferguson for years was perfectly content to lose to direct rivals and still win the league because won VS everyone else. Winning a title over 38 games is never about one or two games VS your rivals, it's about beating the dross week in week out and always has been. Anything can happen in 90 Mins to result in a score like that.

I'm not saying I'm better, I'm just saying it's completely unrealistic that they are that much better than me. There is no competition in real life ever where a team has been unbeaten in every game except for that one time they casually lost 6-0. Even if they play lesser teams better they shouldn't always be beating Man City, Spurs, Chelsea or Arsenal if they are going to ship 6 goals to my team. Even in your Man City v Liverpool example, City beat Liverpool 5-0, not the other way round.

It is just completely unrealistic to think a team could be unbeaten in 26 games and lose the other one 6-0 when playing at full strength. I'm consistently hitting the post and dropping points whilst the team I beat 6-0 simply never fail to lose against the AI and that takes away the fun of it. I don't expect to win the title because I beat my nearest challenger, but if I can score 6 goals against them I don't expect them to otherwise go through the season unbeaten.

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Yes, this is a large a massive whinge post and I'm not particularly great at this game but I don't care - the way the match engine or whatever it is represents things is totally taking away any fun from this game for me. 

I am 28 games into my 2nd season and won't even bother finishing it. Liverpool have a game in hand and are already 17 points ahead of me. 

They have only lost once in the entire season which is itself a fairly rare thing, though not unparalleled in real life. However, the way they lost makes a complete joke of it:

My team is supposedly good enough to beat Liverpool 6-0, yet Liverpool are otherwise far too good for anyone else to beat them. Yet simultaneously, my team that is good enough to beat Liverpool 6-0 isn't good enough to consistently beat the teams who are always losing to Liverpool. I'm sorry, but that just feels ridiculous to me. 

And in just about every game I drop points, I hit the woodwork. 

1-1 Draw with Crystal Palace. Woodwork hit 3 times. Opponent 0 times.

1-0 Loss to Arsenal. Woodwork hit 2 times. Opponent 0 times.

2-2 Draw with West Brom. Woodwork hit 1 time. Opponent 0 times.

2-2 Draw with Chelsea. 

Woodwork hit 1 time. Opponent 1 time as well, so at least in this instance it was even.

2-1 Loss to Everton. Woodwork hit 1 time. Opponent 0 times.

2-0 Loss to Man City. Woodwork hit 5 times. Opponent 0 times.

You can also see I lost on aggregate in the Champions League. Surprise, surprise, I hit the woodwork twice:

For comparison's sake, I also looked at games where Liverpool dropped points. There was only one game I could go back and access where they dropped points (other than their 6-0 loss to me) and they didn't hit the woodwork in that game.

Put together it's all just ridiculous and to much for me to swallow. The woodwork costs me a lot of points but doesn't cost Liverpool any, whilst they are supposedly so much better than every other team yet get thumped 6-0 by me. Maybe this is just a match engine function of how many shots I have or something. Either way I don't care because it's making it no fun. I'm hitting the post in just about every game I drop points yet the team I beat 6-0 is running away with the title because they are otherwise just too good. Sorry, but no.