So, in every FM no matter which tactics I use, I (and my friend) typically end up with the same things across all saves.
1. Always, ALWAYS underachieve on xg. Usually I will always be underscoring xg. This game it's no different, in fact it's way way worse
This was 1 game before the end of the season, and it ended up -15.05. Obviously you're thinking "well it must be your players tactics", yet this is commonplace across all my saves, all my teams, all my tactics. Just finished my second season and with a totally new team and tactic, I've once again underperformed xg and am second worse in the table in that regard.
2. Always conceding more than the xg. It's insane how many times I've had to watch my team ship 3 goals to 1xg this game. There is nothing more infuriating than watching your team go through on goal just to smash it wide, then see them run down the other end and score a screamer from outside the box. This season, 52.9xga, actually conceded? 64. You think I have a bad goalkeeper/defence then?
3. Goalkeepers are utterly pointless and do nothing. A good 4 star experienced keeper is no better than a 2 star newgen. Every now and then I think of putting a lot into my GK because I WANT to actually stop conceding horrible training ground goals all the time. So this season I signed Gazzaniga in Dutch second division, he's 4 stars. He's second in key players. He then has a save percentage of 70. Expected 85. He's so far down on saved goals prevented that he can't make the top 20, my keeper last season also could not make the top 20. My keepers in all saves typically rarely make the top 20. I genuinely do not get good goalkeepers. I'm actually gonna wait for the editor and do a test, giving 20 stats all around to a GK and put him in my team. I bet even with that he will still stand out and perform like a top keeper. Every save where my first team goalkeeper flops, I just put in a youth player who's 2 stars, and their save %s are usually around the same, if not better. So what is the point in having "good" goalkeepers, you may as well just get the cheapest as they have no impact it's pure coin flip.
These problems existed on fm22 as well, just nowhere near as badly as they are showing up on 23 right now. No matter which tactic I use, no matter which players, it's always the same underachieve on xg, lose to teams that have a 3rd of my xg, watch my 4 star gk/striker play like they're 1 star *******, and watch their 2 star ******* players play like prime Kahn/Messi. How is it possible that these same problems can exist across both games, and across any and all tactics? This makes me think that the match engine knows when it's a human player and it goes to ****, cause none of it makes sense to me.
Also maybe a bug but my team went 1st season without a red card, 2nd season 18 games without a red card, then I got 10 in my next 18 games with a streak of 6 in 6 games straight at one point.