since new patch

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

I agree partly. Manual defending should be rewarded. however there must be balance. And, again EA there solution to fix an issue is to completly break the other thing.

Same  with headers, they were first OP, now impossible to score. 

Ai is broken when defending now they stand still or walk away. Positions are terrible they are not marking anything just standing their!!!!

You tell him bro, I’ve been playing FIFA for nearly 30 years, this latest patch is dreadful. The players who think this is a good patch have all of a sudden become skilled because they are able to score 5 or 6 goals with ease in rivals.
The actual truth is anyone can score 5 plus goals now because EA have made it soooo easy for anyone to run through an entire team with passes that don’t even need to be aimed at their players and scoring is literally guaranteed to whoever has the ball. It’s a cop out to say learn to defend without ai, I’d put at least 5 goals past any of these noobs without thinking.

It’s no challenging anymore, therefore I’m not interested in even logging in again, done with fc25

I played a lot today to get some evos and objectives done. 

The experience is entirely down to the different gameplay you get a different times. 

All on squad battles. I had spells it was smooth and even defending was decent. 

Then you get spells when the silver team play like gods. When that happens your own team also slow down and you freeze trying to turn and so on. 

The other thing that happens is refereeing goes heavily against you with soft penalties and red cards. Finally you get last minute goals against you out of nothing. 

With the current defending when the gameplay goes like this it is impossible to defend. Only thing you can do is strap in and try and outshoot a superhuman silver team 5-4. 

I just spend most of the game trying to stop a toty from spinning in place till a speed boost option opens up to get past my defenders. 

I feel like ea did this just in time for toty attackers to be worth 5 million or more. I know pace was always the most important stat but now the rest seem even more irrelevant as it’s much more about pacing past defenders and almost all shots go in now. 

Take a bad game that people are used to and update it to a bad game that people need to relearn.  Deckchairs and titanic stuff ongoing now.

Lol it’s not actually anything like football 8-6, 6-5, 7-5, just like the real thing right

Not to mention the constant menu crashes….
EA suck

Played a few games, and i'm loving this new patch more and more. takes some adjustment and unlearning of stuff. But feels really rewarding. And i rather play 4-4 this way then win 1-0 and nothing happens.

Honestly such a great patch not aboustly awful defending don't exist anymore passing doesn't nor does anything else what a great game EA such a great game