Get a defence xD And a goalkeeper! ~~
I don't see a problem.. with my Malaga in 1st season I've finished 3rd in the league and I won the Cup, now in the 2nd season, after 15 games, I'm the leader of BBVA (goals: 37/5), playing in the 5th round of Cup and got 2nd place in the CL group stage (with FCP, Zenit and Lazio; here the goals are 11/7). But... I've noticed a few types of games/patterns that happened to me a few times:
1. Game with weaker opponent, where I've got like 30 shots, 20 on target and I can't score or I score 1.
2. Game with similar opponent, where I can't score and they are scoring almost every situation.
3. Game with stronger opponents, where they can't score most of their chances, and I make a few actions/shoots and I'm able to win/draw.
4. The most annoying games: with similar opponents, where they're weaker in every aspect of the game through 90 minutes, but they score and get a tie in the last 2 minutes... -.-
Add to this games with weaker opponents, where u actually win by 2-3 goals, and you've got a recipe for FM! -.-;
But it's surely not that you can't win without losing a goal... at the moment my GK (Ospina) has about 300 minutes without losing one and as I can remember, these streaks happened to me also in the 1st season. Maybe it's because I've got quite strong defence (Vrsjako, Demichellis/Verthongen, Mathijsen, Monreal)?