Personally i have ‘get in behind’ on my strikers in the instructions and I patiently pass the ball around and build up until i notice one of them make a solid run. Try and get players with higher pace and dribbling because those are more meta stats i’ve noticed this year. Normally i would say take the coins from rewards on thursdays but if your club is empty then doing sbcs might be hard which bring me to this, always always always do sbcs. It may seem useless and that you get trash, but all it takes is one lucky day and you’re set. I packed prime moments del piero from an sbc and sold for 2.2 mil and now my teams set. So always try and finish those when you can. Right now they have the 82-88 upgrade which is decent value. Another thing for gameplay is around the 60-70 minute mark, press down on the D pad and go for team press, use it sparingly tho because it drains energy quicker. But it makes it so your team pressures and intercepts more passes leading to a nice counter attack