Why is Rivals so difficult

EA FC 24 has got to be the most confusing football games around. It's fluidity is nothing like real life football no matter how many more animations they update, the 71 depth automatic press and offsides trap is a joke and you literally cannot win a game without having it in your tactics. The fact that you can't attack through the middle and only down the wings via cutbacks is so stupid. At least FIFA 23 or 22 even gave us better mechanics within the game to work with. I honestly hate this game, I cannot seem to match with anyone that's not insanely good and I'm in division 5. I play ea fc a lot and to be able to notice that my gameplay works better at 7pm vs 11am when content comes out in (USA mountain time) is absurd. Fortnite is killing ea fc this year and I'm honestly tempted to try eFootball or whatever it's called... something's gotta be better than this piece of * game...