It was against a rival, and I can notice the difference. One thing I started discussing with half-fast was that my team seems unable to win challenges in the midfield with the headers. Which could be due to the player height of my midfielders (going to check tonight), so perhaps I just need to adapt a little more.
Also, because it was a rivalry game and I saw how aggressive they were, I decided to switch to a counter-attack tactic, which worked well for hitting back at them. I carried this over into the next match as well and generated a lot of opportunities that way.
half-fast watched my broadcast there and he saw me almost come back down 3-0 to lose 4-3.
We were also able to pinpoint that I waste a lot of opportunities with recovering possession only to boot the ball straight sideways or backwards because I have an action queued up. I had heard talk about "Super Cancel" but didn't really understand what it was all about . . . well it's about that, and I need to look up that button(s) and get that into my bag of tricks.
It also helped that I added a striker (Vincent Janssen) from Tottenham which has given me more of a threat infront of the goal.
Lastly, my team spirit has climbed from the low 50s at the start of my ML to 71, which I think is helping as well.
Now if I could find a RB that didn't get burned all day on the wing, we'd be really moving forward.