I am trash in Fc 26

Other than 2 tweets saying "We're continuing to monitor your feedback on defence and dribbling", twice...

It's real simple EA, nerf dribbling, at least slightly and buff defence across the board, massively.

No goals feel special anymore, all goals are the same making gameplay repetitive, boring and a chore to play.

Just because certain content creators and tryhard sweats had a "skill issue" as they say, in actually breaking down defences and wanted attacking to be easier doesn't make for good gameplay.

Agreed, I still play my own tactics and formation and way. Not some copy paste by some so called pro.

Would I win more playing the ratty way, sure but as you say there's no fun in that. Plus I like to actually play football and not be a fidget spinning, wait for non existent ai defence to part like the red sea and not tracks runs robot like everyone else.

I’ve spent around £500 opening packs, got a stacked team, but I’m stuck at div 6 getting hammered. I win like 1 in 6 games, I’m stuck at the checkpoint in div 6 so I’ll never be relegated im just stuck getting battered every game. Really hate this game the defending is abysmal, opponents aren’t even playing football they’re just spinning around in circles and pausing/dribbling through my defence easy. I’ve played since fifa15 I’m not a bad player but this game is horrendous I will never fall for buying this game and spending money on it again. 

Where to begin with the game? 
Goalkeeper animations that have the keepers actively pull their arms away from shots. Women players outmuscling men such as rudiger,essien etc. Scripting (yes it very well does exist) having the game tilt for you or against you for no other reason but to shove you to their store to buy packs. The one massive one is their servers they clearly can’t handle the volume of players no matter what they say. Trash company listening to the wrong people. I’m in division 4 and every game feels like a World Cup final ain’t enjoyable and one last thing in what world does a defender with 70-80 pace catch vini jr or estevao when both have head starts? 🤣🤣 Epitomy of a mental health break down this year beyond mad if you ask me. (Most) content creators don’t help slate the game then shoot their load over it the same day or the day after sometimes both. Hope that’s rounded alot of things up.

Oh and claudio pina (a dwarf) that’s somehow turned into the best player in a men’s game. Sorry for the spam comments just good to vent our anger out on this because YouTube for example is full of brainwashed **bleep**.

Use your CDM(s) to defend. Select him and run back as soon as you lose the ball. Be careful because the game likes to auto switch you to the CBs. Leave your CBs alone (for the most part). Use the second man press sparingly (L1) and try to avoid dragging your CBs out of position. Be careful using the offsides trap (D-Pad Up Up); my game always seems to hit unstable connection when I try it in Rivals and live events.

Of course all of this is useless if you get matched up against a total sweat using Pina or the Williams bros. 😂

Just like defending, attacking is manual this year. You have to micromanage your attackers. Face the player you want to pass to and press L1 to trigger them to make a run forward. You can also flick the right stick to have them run in a specific direction.

Good luck.

Do yourself a favour and dont play Ultimate Team. Pick a stock team and play Seasons mode.

Don't play a mode where the women are more powerful than men and where a women striker is the most sort after. Makes no sense at all.

Ultimate Team is the absolute problem child of this game.

Hello man. I have the exact same problem and the thing is i don’t even have a bad team nor tactics. It’s not the best best but it’s absolutely not **bleep**. And i don’t really know What to believe anymore about this game because it doesn’t matter What you are using or What tactics you may have. Even the different playstyles doesen’t matter, alteast for me. I always go for players with a minimum of 6 playstyles, and the all ofc depends of What position the player itself have. I have tried taking notes from YouTube videos about the tactics and how to play with ”team pressure” and also i very rearly use my CB’s manualy. Always trigger them by the RB Button WHEN needed but still, it doesen’t matter. I even tried explain the situation to chatGPT just to see if i could manipulate the game mechanics and so on but NO. Nothing works. And What i mean by this, is that i’m not the one Who is bad at the game. Because even if i win or lose, i always check the statics. And the fun things is, is that i do win one game but after that, i i’m loosing every time. 3-4-5 times i a row. But the problem? My XG in the games i lose is way higher that my opponent, ALWAYS, but still it’s like my players fail to do anything. One game i had, i lost 3-0. My opponent with 41% possession, 5 shots 87 passes and XG 1,6. Myself? Recovery time 6 seconds, my opponent 10. 5 shots for me aswell, XG 2,6 but STILL ZERO GOALS FOR ME. This game gives me anxiety. It gives me anger issues i didn’t even knew i had. I have tried to contact EA about this but do we really believe they Will respond? All they care about is the god **bleep** FC points and the packs. It’s all they want. The money. Of course people Will buy more packs in Beliefe of better players and better promos but 300-400$ in, it doesen’t even matter! Mabye they tagged my account. Mabye they do this just because they want me to buy even more packs but i’m tried of this **bleep** now. I’m playing div 7 and i can’t go further. It’s like one game out of 4, everything works just fine. All the passes, the shots taken from inside or outside the box hits like a banger but the 3 games after that, it’s like all my players trying to do everything they can do just dissapoint me. I’ve played FIFA since fifa 12. I took a break from 16 till 20 and kept on playing since then but man, FC26 it’s all about the money EA can make. More money, wasted game. As always. EA lost it touch long time ago.