Did EA Equip All Defenders With Backwards Boots in FC25?

Thank you, EA, for reinventing football defending... as if every single defender was forced to wear their boots backwards while blindfolded and mildly sedated.

In FC25, center backs stand like statues — they don’t mark, they observe. Fullbacks don’t track — they wander. Defenders in general act like they just remembered they left the stove on at home.

Defending isn’t just broken – it’s practically non-existent. Players refuse to track runs, positioning is random, and the only strategy left is praying the AI bugs in your favor.

You can set all the custom tactics in the world, press every button possible, but when the game decides to become “cinematic,” your players just freeze and politely escort the ball into the net.

Add goalkeepers who parry every weak shot straight into the path of attackers, and you get the perfect recipe for absurd scorelines like 7–5, 8–6 — basically water polo with grass.

You've turned a tactical sport into rugby meets Mario Kart. Physics are off, animations are busted, and referees ignore actual fouls like it’s a Black Friday sale on brain cells.

But hey, at least you added QR codes and rainbow boots, right? Who cares about gameplay when we can have colorful chaos?

And just to top it off — you insult our intelligence by throwing cash at streamers to pretend they're playing the game of their lives. They scream, they smile, they "love" it... as long as the paycheck clears. Meanwhile, we get stuck with this broken mess.

What exactly are we paying for here — a football simulator or a comedy sketch?

Stop chasing "cinematic experiences" and fix the **bleep** fundamentals.
This isn’t innovation — it’s incompetence.

And please, stop pretending you're simulating football.
This is slapstick comedy.