Friendlies is matched more evenly by form and doesn’t reset. Also if you quit matches it won’t drop your form in friendlies. So you are likely getting harder opponents. I imagine a lot quit in friendlies without knowing they changed it this year.
I don’t quit friendlies very often. I am finding the gameplay very bad and very inconsistent in the friendly format over the other modes. I don’t care about losing to a player better than me, and there are plenty of them around. It’s the delays in movement, the god awful passing setting up others for easy goals etc. I could understand if I was using low rated cards but at this point most cards are above 90 in most stats.
I took a corner where I pulled my player over, and the pass didn’t even make 5 yards it was so soft, and because my player didn’t move the oppo run in and took it. It just feels like that the game itself is against me, forcing me to lose because of how the mechanics are for me.
