Somehow the hardest match I have ever played

is against Real Sociedad in preseason. Their marking is off the charts good. They have the ball glued to their feet. They will have several goals that feel completely predetermined a game. Everything on my team is SLOW compared to how the game normally plays. My player's reactions, my teammate's passes, everything. This game is somehow more difficult than the FA cup final or playing at Anfield.

I have restarted this game roughly 50 times because it feels unplayable with whatever dumb "EA predetermined magic" got randomly put on this game for some reason. It's the same every restart. Some idiot came up with something that randomly overcooks a match. 

It doesn't feel like a "challenge." It feels like something some very dull bulb thought up as a "challenge." You can't just crank up some random opponent to 11, give them a few "going to keep the ball no matter what goals" and expect anything less than disgust from your customers at your inability to generate a real challenge in the game. It doesn't feel real. It feels like a script for a movie that a dumb person asked ChapGPT to write. Nobody wants to play something like that. You can't have 2-3 INSANE HOW HE KEPT THE BALL goals a game. Just sprinkle in some own goals or some catastrophic passes from the CPU players. That would at least be something like reality.