Pressure tactics?

You can’t, the gameplay is utter garbage.

Constant pressure for the entire game with AI auto drop back and defend with zero stamina loss.

Yeah I know and this is supposed to be a "true to life football simulator" lol.

If I can't play against it can you tell me how to do it?  I've tried youtube tactics that should have worked but my AI just stood still and didn't press at all.

@GSM350Really depends on who they have in their team because if they've paid to get all the top players in the game, there's not much you can do...

But the best way i've found to play against it is this;

- Only use sprint or controlled sprint when you have a lot of space in front of you

- Quick give & go's to get your players moving forward to drag their defenders about

- Look for players with long ball, long ball+, incisive pass, pinged pass etc... and players with good dribbling.

- When they're going crazy with the press if you have fast wingers and CMs/fullbacks that have good long passing you can play long throughballs over the top and catch them on the break

But sadly the AI is so ridiculously overpowered this year that it won't work every time

Personally I don’t play online to often, but when I come up against it I find a backwards pass, to a cross ball to other side of the pitch helps me a lot

@Cam3131  and @Oldman_Sparky_YT 

Thanks for the tips, it's greatly appreciated.  Hopefully I can use them and I only get beaten 2-0 instead of the usual 8-0 lol.

@GSM350  yeah @Oldman_Sparky_YT  is right too, if you can work the ball to your fullbacks and play wing to wing then that can help too BUT if you do it, make sure you have fullbacks with good long passing and ball control because if not the passes will go short and will bounce off your player and they'll be straight in.

It's so frustrating to play against but i'd definitely say looking for CMs with the long ball trait helps a lot, playing long diagonal lobbed throughballs is really effective with that playstyle

Waste of time and money, the game is pure auto.

this has to rank as the worst game of fifa by a country mile.

I would also add lob button. Have you tried lobbing the goalie and empty net  and the ball goes 2 feet’s so that defenders and goalie recovers. Lol

what you said is every game online I have played. 

Correct!

Also learn all the different passing mechanics and learn where to use them.

Most of the time if you get thru the pressure it becomes easy. Also play patient and dont pass around the back to much....use player lock if you can and directed runs to confuse and pass and go....look for triangles and do stepovers as they help you boost past players.

Good luck

Yep, I hate it. I can’t stand that some teams can just charge after you all game long without having any noticeable drop off stamina wise. Couple that with the fact that you can literally just barge into people from behind to win the ball back and some games are just utterly relentless. You can play high press, button bashing tackle, 100 mile an hour arcade nonsense and that’s all you gotta do. No skill, no finesse, no fun.