The good gameplay its hidden
All the time the BIG discussion its about the gameplay. Some players say that FC has all but the gameplay its bad, others say that efootball has the best gameplay but nothing more. In my opinion FC has a good gameplay but too much faster, too much precise, too much move. Efootball its a good gameplay to see but not to play, its a gameplay that you can not have TIMING and the timing in competitive games are very important. By the way, FC25 (starting) and PES21 are the best football games I ever played.
Therefore I tasted one thing in FC25 that I thought that can works, I select seasons/bad team/against similar team. And voila! The gameplay is awesome, you know why? Because its less faster, precise, you miss balls, controls, its like real life and this random and sor prise its awesome. You have to think better, think in the tactics, move the ball to find chances.
you only have to reduce the stats of the players, or act like if you down it. Its like is you put Mbappe 91 but really he has 81. And one more thing, if you try to put similar stats in first divisions, not too much distance the players can compite with their clubs and avoid always Real Madrid vs Real Madrid.
think about it.