the speed of gameplay

I'm struggling with same issue. All the players running like road runners on the pitch. Even low pace defenders speed are same as Mbappe’s speed.  It's totally unplayable. 

A video game should not be realistic. EA FC / FIFA were never realistic. You want Haaland to miss big chances randomly or Rodri do random passing mistakes once in a while, like in real? Games who end 1:0 or 0:0?

This game should be fun. Defending is now manual and much more fun and rewarding, than running against an AI wall and passing for 30 min to have one chance or need to use "realistic" trivelas from 25 yards. I just hope the don't patch it to the ground. Its the first day and people were obviously too used to AI defending and crappy mechnics.

what is your objective in an unrealistic football game where the attack constantly dominates and you have no defensive serenity or the opposite I really loved it in reality it's those who don't like playing real football who hated the beginning of the year and that it's much more pleasant and easy to attack there you can't even put the game down it's like ping pong and defense let's not talk about it it's harder to defend than to attack if you tell me otherwise send me your last matches

Did you really just say the speed of last years game was good? Are you joking? The heavy criticism of last years Fc 25 game especially in the beginning was that it was too slow, players moved like they were stuck in mud, the game last year when it first came out during the first few months was border line unplayable, they had to do a whole revamp on gameplay around January because of how bad it was, and despite the revamp the games was still terrible to play.

I’m loving Fc 26 so far this is easily the best game in recent years in terms of gameplay responsiveness as long as they don’t patch or change things hopefully