Defending in this game is an absolute joke
Defending in FC Mobile doesn’t even feel like football anymore. Opponents just have to press the tackle button and magically my player will knock the ball loose — without them even touching it — and ...
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My Experience:
I faced a friend in H2H recently. What you said about the defense is absolutely true, and I find it disgusting that EA is trying to force us to believe they've created a very realistic game. Very absurd and disgusting!
The defenders feel like they are forced to not make contact with the opponent when defending. No physical contact!
To make matter even insane, the CBs purposely open defense line for the opponents. Very very common when using 5-back defenders formation.
Yeah, the AI defending off the ball is really poor. That’s why I typically pick a midfielder and use him deny the penetrating through ball (leaving the AI to defend the ball).
To be fair, EA did have a problem previously with defenders flying in like heat-seeking missiles and consistently winning the ball in scenarios that looked nothing like real football (and that gave the team in possession no chance to react due to ever-present lag. The problem now is, as you noted, there seems to be a force field around attackers that makes it very difficult to get close to them (let alone win the ball). As usual, EA doesn’t seem to have the resources or wherewithal to get things right.
if you ask me, all you have to do is watch a Manager Mode match—i.e., a pure simulation—to see how screwed up the underlying code is. EA keeps tinkering around the edges in their updates, but the game will remain deeply flawed until they overhaul the engine.
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