How to avoid bad period with my team?

[Vornik]

I'm playing with Lille first season, i'm in my first season I'm first, and i was even without a loss till i was versus a decent team and lost 3-2, now in the CL i lost 6-0!!! to bayren!! and i feel that the team getting worse.

So how can i avoid that situation?

[eplkewell]

I hear if you take birth control pills you get less bad periods.

[Vornik]

lol my english sucks

[Ranquelme]

You should try to go a bit more defensive. Get some draws on the board and this will increase morale slowly.

[Respected_Boss]

In my opinion, you've gotta take a risk. Get a Team Meeting organised and try and pick out the right answers to drag your teams morale up. If you have a good captain, get him to start the talking in the meeting, he'll give you a good idea where to go with your responses.

Anyone who isn't affected, try a little private chat, using their personality as a measuring stick on what sort of answers to give them. You can be a bit aggressive with jovial and determined personalites, kid gloves for the temperamental lot, you know how it is.

Is there anyone in need of a rest? Not an immediate fix, but giving your better players a few weeks off might help jadedness, under "View Club" "Allow extended Leave" your physio will recommend if a player needs a rest and for how long.

Could be your tactics, try tweaking them to fit your players a little better? If your playing a narrow game, and you have a right midfielder who has great crossing and ball skils, use him. Having a good header of the ball on set pieces, the right set piece taker and penalty takers is worth a good amount of goals to your team over a season.

Try a few mind games in an upcoming match, Ive found playing down your teams chances against a higher rep opponent, and then motivating them with a "nothing to lose" team talk could get them fired up. Check their mentality during the team talks, sometimes an individual talk when someone is down on confidence can work well, especially if its a younger player.

Drop the bad performers for a few games, and tell them so too, you might get a renewed player once he is allowed back into the first team, avoid going on hiliday if you do this though, as your AssMan doesn't pay any attention to the fact you've dropped him and will play him.

Always, always have a "Park Bus in front of goal" tactic to defend your leads in the last 10 or 15 minutes. I go with a flat back 4, anchorman, 4 midfielders and a striker. Defensive mentality obviouslyl, hardly any forward runs etc. Whack counter attack on and long ball to your flanks for clearence. Also, I have an ultimate "go for broke" tactic Ive saved when im a goal down, make sure you have some versatile players on your bench, I cannot stress enough to people how useful it is to train players to play in other positions, obviously be sensible with it, don't be trying to make Balotelli a Centreback lol. But if you have a right winger, and his left foot isn't too bad, then it'd be rude not to train him to play on the left wing wouldn't it?

*EDIT*

Oh, I'd recommend not training a player in another position until after he hits the age of 24, which is roughly when he stops developing quickly. Might be just me, Ive never heard anyone say it affects their development, but new position training takes up 10% of their schedule time. So its likely it does.

Just a few suggestions, you may have already tried these, apologies if you have.

[chocolatecoatedballs]

GOOD suggestions Respected.

Agree, although if you have a good ass man, sometimes letting him take over a match will provide a win, when you holiday, let him choose players and formation, works for me.

Play one of your backup formations, I usually play in highlights mode, but if things are going poorly, switch to full match so I can see what is happening, may change formation, type of passing, substitute because the match ratings can be poor representation of the biggest problem on the pitch.