[Feedback thread] Gameplay Improvements!— We Want Your Thoughts!

I just waited more than a week to give you fair feedback.

1. passing and through ball - worse than before. It feels like you are playing with a beach ball. The ball keep bouncing, and skipping players. The through ball almost weak most of time, Or much stronger than needed that it would skip the player. It is a game for god sake. No body needs to reinvent the wheel. It was decent before. No it is worse.
2. kickoff rush balancing - I noticed not a lot of people trying to do it now. Maybe because you guys announce about it. But I think it is better. Although the ball bounce on the defence players some times like a beach ball.
3. crossing - I did not notice much difference. As far as I remember crossings were much better back in 2023. The following updates made it worse. and now it is better, but not as it used to be. Maybe because of the ball balance.
4. Shooting - nothing much changed. I noticed little bit delay from before. And for some reason, it seems that the accuracy is reduced for most players, even Bellingham who seems to be preferred by EA for some reason. A lot of misses and post hitting. It that important, can live with it, and adjust game play.
5. defending - that is seems to be always your biggest challenge. After every single update, the defenders seem to be as dumb as they can be. They roam around the attackers, and move like idiot around the field. Running pass players, and even colliding some times without stopping the ball. You had similar issue in the previous update. But I think it was fixed, and now back to square one. Same problems as before. Do you test the performance on all players and formations? Or do you just test it on specific players and formation?
6. Goalkeeping - same no changes. I think it might be even better than before, speaking about other players goalkeepers. They seem to be better in general. Good Job!
7. Match presentation - yes. Thumbs up. That is the best update.
8. matchmaking - fine. Not much different than before. 

overall, thank you for the update. It still needs a lot of improvement specifically in game play. Just before the update the game play was much better. The kickoff rush and crossings weren’t  the biggest issues in the game. Thanks for the fix.
but, please fix the bouncing ball, players movements, and defence.