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Why am I full gold team going against people with every card above gold? I'm just losing every game cause my gold striker is just getting bodied by a person dribbling in circles, off-ball defending, has 4 totys on his team.  The highest card on my team is Lammens GK's future stars. And I'm only doing Premier League atm, I can't wait to get to Bundesliga where I have no one.