I play on 3 stars...I have won African Cup with South Africa, Asia/Oceanic cup with China(lol) and European Cup with Portugal. Won Division 1, 2, and division 2 cup with Esportiva in Master League all with three stars.
All of these titles were made suffering...
In ML, I play on 3 stars, i defend well(really well), only suffered 16 goals in 30 games of ML...my problem is attacking, i make well everything, my midfielders are good(Quaresma, Moraes, Van Gogh and Maupassant) are really great, and the attackers help a lot(João Pinto, Ibsen and Piliniak). I pass well, the problem is getting past the last defender...if I get past the last defender, i fail 70% of the chances, then it is hard to win. I almost always shoot 1 or 2 balls at the bar in a game. The best is that I am getting better at long-range shoot. To difficult that, I got slowdown near the penalty-box. Many of my games(60%) in 3 stars are won by the smallest margin(1-0, 2-1), sometimes I make 3-0, 3-1, and I draw many times...I only lost 3 times last season, 2 for the cup and one for the league. The prob is that I draw many times.
But in my Season 3 of ML, i am getting better, contracted an even better defense(Luizão and Ayala), released Valeny(can't head well) started out well the pre-season 3 wins(2-1, 4-0, 2-0), then I made two games so far, one for the league(2-0) and one for the WEFA CHAMPIONSHIP, where I won Guadalquivir(Betis) for a good score(3-0). Well...maybe I will start to try 4 stars...
Conclusion...if you defend well, and have a good GK(important sometimes), you have half of the way done to wins 1 point. The next 2 points can be hard to obtain. You have to take your chances.
What I hate is when I am going to score, a stupid feet from a defender gets on my way, i get 15 shots by game...WTF?