...sometimes
Of course that sometimes, but hey, this is not the first and the only match that i see with a team playing better and losing the match, you can't win all your matches, even playing better than your oponent, even Barcelona loses matches without deserving. I've seen lots of matches with a team shooting about 10 times at goal without scoring, and rival team shooting only once and scoring, that happens too.
If in my today's match, my opponent would have score in the only shoot he made at goal, it wouldn't change my feeling, my team played better than his despite he used MotS, so it wouldn't change the subject that using MotS doesn't mean you're going to win for sure.
My point is that i've seen lots of people complaining because they lost again MotS, they only say that any team can be better than a long time developed squad just because their rival used MotS, and i believe it's not true.... you can lose of course it can happens, but even in your match (against one of the strongest american squads) it was a very balanced match, you could've won that match too, and that's my point.
WHY
I'm not absolutely sure (i don't have the answers to everything, you should ask Admin about this), but this might give you a clue....
The higher the experience, the higher chance a player performs well and also has a greater change to hit top form.
Your player's experience is 1......