This game is horrible

Why is it that every player on the opposing team is faster than my players even though my players pace is higher? Also my defenders will watch the player with the ball run right by them until I control them. And I would control them if the game would let me switch to them but for some reason it won’t allow me to switch to the necessary player in time. I’ve tried changing the settings for switching players and it doesn’t help. Just start completely over for fc26 please