It is very clear that the defensive changes introduced in the latest update were not accidental or the result of a bug. This downgrade feels deliberate. Defensive AI has been intentionally weakened to favor professional players, streamers, and high-paced offensive gameplay. Defenders now behave irrationally, leave massive gaps without reason, fail to mark attackers, and react far too late. This is not “skill gap” — it is forced incompetence. These changes do not reward tactical defending, positioning, or anticipation. Instead, they manufacture mistakes in the defensive AI to increase goal frequency and make attacking easier for a small, vocal group of competitive players. The result is an unbalanced and frustrating experience for the majority of the player base. If gameplay decisions are being driven primarily by feedback from professionals and content creators, then the core football experience is being sacrificed. A football game should reward intelligence and discipline, not artificially created defensive errors. This update has reduced realism, balance, and player control. It needs to be reconsidered.

The defense is indeed moving incredibly stupidly.

Deffence is done great but cheaters lowering your deffenders stamina and/or pace to score easily. the counting is done on your pc, player sends I have 80% stamina left to server but cheater interupts and say 0% and your pc shows 80% but it works 0% and than your defender is not enough fast to take the ball.

For ea that seems like acceptable behavior permanent bans are rare

When someone start the haking subject mods run away from forum on few days as it seems that they not have plans to fix it, i saw post on forum that cheat came out before the game, yet you have fewe xheats for playstation and for px most of them are sold on cheat websites

Deliberate Defensive Sabotage to Please Pro Players

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