Game is cheating

The problem is that you can notice that the AI can do everything you are attempting to do but your players magically have slower reflexes regardless of rating. The gameplay changes when ranking is on the line for squad battles, your accuracy disappears in the final third somehow, their players make all the correct decisions while your players make mistakes all the time or won’t take instructions appropriately or quickly enough. It is absolutely unreal / unfair that the AI has the reflexes your players don’t. In real life athletes at that level are not behaving the way the game suggests and the AI doesn’t have all the slow reactions your players are forced to have. I try to make quicker decisions and passes but the game pretends that players can’t handle passes faster, and change directions with ease. That is not the way to create game difficulty. Challenge is one thing, making your opponent better without a chance for you to compete on the same level artificially is crap.