Board Game Arena

Hello! I love this game, and I think I grasp the strategy of it...when playing 3 and more players. But the same does not apply to two players I think. I just can't build some suits and try to lower their scores as much as possible! My opponents end up with like, 2 suits scoring 1 to 3 points! While I usually I ended up with 3 to 5 points and I thought THAT was a good score. It's just seems that they always have a card to give me, and I don't have enough time to build... anything! If I lose badly on the firsts rounds it's really hard to comeback from that.

Is there anything that I'm missing?

Just need luck to get 1s and 2s.
I won a game with 16 cards,while opponent only have 3 cards but -24 points.

Another one: https://snipboard.io/CqaLxU.jpg