It’s the algorithm that cheats you, I have wrote many detailed messages to customer help about it, it seems to happen when you progress a little bit in the online modes, but it’s not just limited to H2H it’s in VSA and MM,
the biggest tell when it’s happening is in MM when your team stop defending, start making stupid passes to nobody in midfield and opposition keeper starts to save every shot, eventually it leads to losing strike of 20 to 30 games and not just unlucky losses it’s 20 to 30 4-0 to 5-0 losses,
in VSA you notice that you have the stronger team with the better chances but your opponent scores 10 to 11 of his chances and you keep hitting the post or the keeper pushes the ball wide to waste time, or players pass to wrong team mate, also the pace and reaction time in your team is no existent
in H2H it’s pretty similar to VSA, your team artificially make is mistakes, refuse to do skill moves, can’t control the ball, delay passes and shots so the opponent can get a block in, the opposition goalkeeper saves everything while yours keeps fumbling the ball and throwing it out to the opposition, and that free kick you always seem to score hits the post or is just wide every time, then it gets to a stage where team won’t tackle, won’t make runs, and won’t jump for header in defence or attack. The game try’s to make you feel like team isn’t good enough so you buy more packs which is not true as most opponents are easy to beat when the game working right especially the ones with the big OVR as they all seem to play 4-2-4 leaving them with a midfield that’s outnumbered when you attack as they use all out attack with this formation opening them to a counterattack, so when the algorithm relies that your making progress again these teams using the rules of the game it starts to cheat you. So yes in a way it’s not scripting instead it’s more like match fixing on behalf of EA to try and get you spend, but then you find there is nothing in the packs you just bought only the same players you have so what’s the point in buying them.
I used to uninstall the game and reinstall it then this would fix this issue for a while but it seems EA have patched that, customer help is ignoring the issue they just give same scripted response ”I’m a gamer too and I understand your frustration” “post it in the EA forums and see if anyone else is having the problem if so we will do something about it” then I tell them they are plenty of players with the same problem that has not been addressed on the forums, that’s point where the operator gives up and passes it onto next operator to troll you for the same information you just provided, and then onto the next operator and the next operator.