Great post, wish EA would see it.
Every match I play the opponents have at least 70+ tackles my players are constantly moving out of the way, when my players go into tackles " I attempt about 18 a match and win on average 12" they stretch a foot out I can see when I miss the tackle. So how is the opponents going into tackles and winning the ball without me even seeing the single leg stretch out. It's usually because every tackle is automatically made by EA and how do they to make multiple attempts at it if my player misses the tackle the animation takes him out of the play and can't recover in time.
I made a post of my own mentioning ball control and Interceptions for normal gameplay it's far too op. It should be lowered because for anyone with delay it doesn't work.
It does feel like shouting into the void, to be honest, but my frustration finally got the better of me and a post to vent was needed!
The tackling animation thing is so frustrating. Like you, if I miss a tackle, my player gets stun-locked and takes a second or two to recover, but my opponent in many games will just be spamming and recovering from tackles in a split second.
I sometimes feel in this game something which can only be described as a sense of being de-synchronised or out of sync with my opponents' gameplay, and that the weird animation glitches, slowing down of players, and just not seeing animations in opponents' actions is the games' output trying to "explain" what has happened.
I made a recording or two earlier where I noticed that the ball was called for being out of play when, on my screen, the ball had not crossed the boundary line of the pitch. This again makes me wonder if there is some kind of half-second:second whole game experience lag/desync between opponents sometimes.
