As soon as my 87-pace player dribbles, his pace drops by 40 points gets caught by everyone. But when I'm using him to chase down the CPU, his pace is STILL terrible and he stays about 1 foot behind the player with the ball. Can't ever win in this game.
I'm not usually one for conspiracies, but I've noticed a strange pattern in the Silver Tournament recently. I concede a decent goal to my opponent. Then I concede an absolute fluke. All the sudden, my players feel a lot better and I'm able to fight back to 1-2 or even 2-2. Then it goes back to "normal" and my players are trash again.