EA SPORTS FC™ TeamNo, you don't have the increase difficulty (elsewhere you will not be able to keep up with the AI), it is just that decreasing difficulty doesn't change much for AI concerning corner exit and straight line speed, differently from corner entry. Hence the more you decrease AI skill and the more you experience a sort of rubber banding where AI is slow on corner entry but fast on exit and straight line speed. With higher difficulties the pace is instead more smooth as the AI is fast everywhere (with still some difference in slow corners, but much less than otherwise).
However patch 1.07 surely has increased the ability the user has to keep up with the AI on corner exit, hence the gap is lower than before.
