Second half of the season always worse

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Why does my teams always perform much better the first half of the season and then when we come in to january they perform much worse?
 
Tiredness/reputation change/morale/more matches/too much or too little or not correct rotation/too many new players in January/ too many weak willed players ...

ASK UNCLE MAD THREAD for more ideas/cmment/suggestions.
 
It's almost always related to your reputation changing and teams playing more cautiously against you, so quick counter-attacks won't be effective as the opposition has more players back. I'm generalising, because you've not provided any info, but this is usually the case. Watch your matches back to see if that was the case?
 
Are you Arsenal? Serious question...

Lots of United players (including youngsters? lol..) have really good consistency and big matches rating... so all the stuff MANUMAD said was totally right but don't forget that a lot of these teams have BIAS from SI/media world/whoever and continually screw people over like that.

Pretty sure Flamini got the highest ground covered for this season.... go check how much Lars Bender did.... then check their stamina and tell me it's not media influence... it's BS but is what it is. That's without even thinking about the normal stuff like morale/opponents being used to your tactics/opponents being more cautious/players being jaded (learn to rotate PROPERLY), using the "rest" feature/general fitness per player/etc.

Also during match day make it so that it shows "opponents tactics" on the main screen so you can see if they change their tactics late in the game. Usually you should be okay but sometimes they do this. Also if you're downloading tactics... you could have downloaded a tactic for players with higher stamina.
 
I would usually agree with this, but having just finished a season with a 17 match winning streak I can't really complain, definitely becomes easier in long term saves when your team are solidly built and cohesive together.
 
I'm Fulham, playing with one tacitc, this one: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/shar...lan-goal-difference-100-a-50.html#post2150993

I lost like 2 games in the first half of the season then blip when you come to end of december beginning of January it started to go much worse. But it's always like this for me. I'll check on next save if my reputation goes up around there.

Anyways what do you suggest I do? Find another tactic to rotate?
 
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