Why is my pro clubs ai defending and passing so bad?

It's because you call for the ball double tap R1/RB when each ai gains possession and they'll make the right pass maybe even take someone on they are hesitant due to waiting for the call this negates the call. You should never call for the ball it's EA answer to a turnover due to bad programming and is there because 95% of players don't know how to move off the ball, instead of EA throwing in some tutorials to show players how and where to move they instead introduced the ping pong button.

Still an issue almost a year later. Never win headers, even if they do it goes back to opponent, yep, call for pass, AI turns the other way into danger often losing ball before playing pass, one center back drops a few meters deep inexplicably allowing opponent to stand in the space and receive a simple through ball, defenders just jog alongside opponent running in straight line no tackles no attempt to stop them shooting.

Opponents AI is other worldly, wins everything in the air, aggressive as hell, steams into the back of players winning the ball, opponent is also faster, more agile, gets every lose ball, gets ever pass off despite being tackled ball bounces to where they wanted it.

check opponents AI rating in performance tab, oh, they have an 82 rated Ai, we have an 88, that’s weird, ah yes, clubs has the same bull**bleep** engine UT has, where numbers are made up on the spot, DDA rules. No wonder my players with their 99 ball control stats, can’t not take a touch into the car park.

its a **bleep** game EA. You ain’t playing opponent, you are also playing against your own AI. Even when winning it feels hollow, because you know the other poor **bleep**er is experiencing the same issues you have been in a prior game.

Someone really needs to put out a rival to you hacks, I sincerely hope they do, a lot will go over, maybe once your share price tanks, after your greed pack selling orgy is done, your developers might focus on something other than how to game the system so that no matter how many packs you buy and how high your cards are, the scummy devs will downgrade them forcing you to get the next TOTW cards, an endless cycle of **bleep**.

It’s so bad. Every time an attacker makes a sprinting run at the line nobody tracks him and it’s a 3v1 every possession. We concede a minimum of 4 goals a game due to this. 
Not to mention the passing, the AI can never make a pass in stride they have to take 2-3 touches before releasing the ball. And when they do it usually goes astray 

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