Having shots and CCCs does not mean you should win. Really, they do not matter. Goals matter. Football is not always fair - and that is why we love it. If the strongest team on paper always won there would be no point to it.
Is it really true that CCC's and shots dont matter because I have never seen a football magically teleport itself into a goal all by itself. Its always put there by a player in some way that is executing the skills and tactics they were trained in.
But on the other hand, whats the point of creating and perfecting tactics and then going out and getting players that fit into the roles of your tactics and then choosing a suitable line up based on form, and condition, researching your opponents by reading scouting reports and making in game adjustments due to changing game conditions if shots and chances dont matter.
You are correct about the goals. Coaching any sport, your purpose as a coach is to teach tactics and skills that put your players in a position to score.The question being raised is whether there is an abnormal number of times that after you do put them in position to score, that they fail to do so. If chances and shots and 1 on 1's dont matter why dont all the players just line up at the beginning and flip a coin to see who wins.
I'm not trying to be argumentative but FM11 is a game. It is meant to be an enjoyable way to pass off some free time. I dont think it is SI's intentions to make it feel like all the effort and planning I do during my free time playing their game is a waste. It would be my assumption that their intentions was to make a game that I would want to buy and replay a lot and then when their next game came out, I would want to buy it also. It is possible that there is a bug that somehow makes the game behave this way and if that is the case maybe it will be addressed in the next patch, but just writing this kind of thing off as "the best team on paper doesnt always win" seems a bit short sighted when I have done my job as a coach and put my team in position to score as many times as I did in the game I mentioned before. But right now it seems to me that there are an alarmingly high number of times that my "best team on paper" fails to convert their chances into actual goals and more like the actual strategy and player decisions I make have no effect on the games outcome.
To actually be honest though, I was just glad that I didnt lose the game because my GK kicked a ball off the back of one of my centerbacks heads into our own goal. (and yes I have had that happen in game too)