Oh boy... the mess they made.
Not much new to add to the complaints, except that it was frustrating coming up against a squad of bronzes (on legendary) who continuously stopped my attackers like a brick wall. No stats, no PS. It was like they were Maldini and his twin brothers on coke. I lowered the difficulty to "world class" and faced ACTUAL prime Maldini who, comparively, seemed to play like a toddler that got cooked every second of the game.
This game is a joke. In what world does this actually happen? Do stats even matter anymore? I'm sick of this artificial difficulty. I don't mind losing to top teams and hard matches, but there are limits. Meanwhile, the AI acts like an infant that hasn't developed its brain yet and constantly go for sliding tackles you see coming from a mile away. If I play the exact same through ball and score it never learns. Yet I try anything else and it just locks me down. The AI's pressure is insane, especially after gaining the ball in the box: it just immediately regains it with anybody while you are still getting your first ball touch in. You can easily win, but only if you follow the one through path, aka. "The Way of the Rat".
I'm this close to quitting this game mode as it is getting downright embarrassing. Not sure what their intention is, but even the biggest **bleep** will understand that "buying packs" isn't going to help you from getting bullied by a bronze team. I don't care about the performance as I've never done this well in SB and the difference between tiers is so low that it just doesn't matter.