Is it me or the newest update is extremely punishing if you want to rotate the team and/or use players lacking match sharpness?
Two random examples:
- I’m the best team of the league, I’m playing against a team on a seemingly endless losing streak, we’re 2-0 up and my opponents are “lacking confidence”. I decide to give some playing time to a central defender returning from an injury (red thumb down icon). It’s the 80th minute. In five minutes, they score two…
- Champion’s League match, I’m first and already qualified as first; I decide to rotate the squad, changing 8 or 9 players. I’m expecting a defeat, but not a 9-1 loss! The first three goals, all in the first ten minutes of the game, are like the same highlight played over and over: cross from the byline, directly toward the keeper who, instead of blocking the ball or at least punching it away, just watches it flying over his head. I never, ever saw something like this, let alone three times in the same game. The most blatant case of match fixing in the history of football!
Of course, all my touchline shouts and team talks don't make any difference except changing the icons from red to green to yellow and red again...
Side note: I’m currently running three parallel saves (same team, same tactics) – in one of them I sold an important player (a midfielder) and didn’t replace it. I, of course, was expecting some bad stuff happening, but the way the game is telling me “you’re an idiot” is to go back to the good old days of superkeepers and crazy strikers (FM 10?, 11?) Basically, there’s no visible drop in my performances, if anything, I think my xGs ratio is even better, it’s just that I miss the easiest chances and concede the most stupid goals. Every. Single. Match.