How to be consistent against my friend’s team?

Me anything friend recently started an online career where I played Liverpool and he played Arsenal. My team has been crazy good, only losing 5 times in the first season, and winning the EPL, Carabao Cup, and UEL. My team has been consistently good against all major teams, like City or Tottenham, but I just can’t seem to do that against my friend’s Arsenal team.

He was my only loss in the first season of the EPL. He beat me in the FA cup final. The thing is, in both of these matches he scored 4 goals which made my defence which was “the best in Europe” look like crap. I’ve also beat many times, once in the Community shield, super cup, and carabao cup.

He uses the preset gegenpress with a 4-2-3-1. On paper, my team is better across the board, both by attributes and the star ratings. I also use a gegenpress which is similar to the preset but doesn’t have the “step up” instruction and distributes to full backs. Anyway I can bring consistency against him, beacuse I’m worried he might get some crazy result over me in major matches again…