since new patch

Same. The defending is horrific. Every game I played tonight finished like 8-7

for someone who prides themselves on defending well and moving players off the ball to close passing lanes it’s sad. The ball can be 1cm away from a defender and they just won’t even try and control it

flip side is you score a goal almost every attack especially with controlled dribbling

Manual defending is finally important and is rewarded. That's why I think the change is good.

Nah, you still need your defence to have some shape and to have the ability to close down and make tackles. It is horrific now. 

For too long the game has been too easy to defend. Now players have to anticipate what the opponent is going to do and switch to a defender to make a tackle or intercept whereas before it was all done for you. This is a big improvement and finally rewards people who are skilled on manual defence rather than those who just run back with a midfielder and let the ai do all the work for them 

Fine in theory but you can only control a player at a time and it also assumes switching, tackling etc do as expected. Currently, on my gameplay at least it isn’t and it is awful. The amount of ridiculous penalties has increased too. Every challenge and blocked shot is a penalty. 

It was a bad move from ea. First thing everyone said is you no longer need manual offense because it’s so easy now. So they have lowered the skill gap. We need offense to take skill. The problem is people like easy offense as it’s what sells games. I really don’t know why people want to just run past defenders. It’s why in the past we had full backs or even attackers at cb to try to keep up with pace. I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t go back to that again. 

It just a skill thing. Anyone who has to play with delay and bad gameplay has always had to play like this as the ai did nothing before in this type of gameplay. It’s perfectly acceptable to keep the game as it is and players just need to learn how to switch and anticipate rather than have it all done for you.

Ah, skill issue eh? How original. You think we should do away with ratings, playstyles, tactics etc and just go for it with identical set ups and rely on technique?

I’ve been playing football games since the early 80s so I’m pretty well aware of skill versus gameplay discussions, thanks. 

But what about this horrible game mechanics? Game is behaving unpredictable, its not normal if i hit the poast twice and both balls lands back in my feet (my one player vs 4 defenders in the box). 
you can say all you want but this game is far away from a realistic one. Iz feels like im playing kunf-fu soccer