Team Always Underperforms Champions League

[Stags304]

I'm on FM21 for reference, but is there something specific about the Champions League that I'm missing? I win league titles, league cups, have great players, pretty much everything I can think of and no matter what my team chronically underperforms in the Champions League. I have built another PSG. I don't get it. I can't tell you how many tactics I've tried. I've read so many forum posts, watched videos, asked other people for help, had other people look over my squad and specifically build tactics for me and still nothing. You would honestly think I'm fielding a U19 group with how poorly we play. Is there anything at all I'm missing? My team has great chemistry. I have no players that don't enjoy big matches, most of them enjoy or relish it as that has become a requirement for me to buy a player at this point. I am completely out of ideas.

[FrazT]

Your team's reputation may still be lower than the top teams in the CL and this will make it harder ( but not impossible ) to have success at that level.  Reputation can take some time to catch up with on-field domestic success.

[Pafnus]

On 23.03.2023 at 09:49, FrazT said:

Your team's reputation may still be lower than the top teams in the CL and this will make it harder ( but not impossible ) to have success at that level.  Reputation can take some time to catch up with on-field domestic success.

Does reputation impact match engine? İ dont think so

[XaW]

6 minutes ago, Pafnus said:

Does reputation impact match engine? İ dont think so

Not directly, but team reputation (along several other factors) can impact how AI manager rate their chances against you, and thus impact how attacking or defensive they will line up their team.

[Poison]

Do you have players with good physicals? Also are they experienced? I believe those two are important.