The OVR is a scam, they just don’t work that way. When the game decides you to have a tough match, your players will be nerfed and your opponents players will be buffed. Your defenders don’t defend and open up and go higher even if you have set to defense mode. You lose most of the duels, the ball rebounds to your opponent, they have easy corners leading to goal, your defender who you are not controlling fouls and concedes penalty, the game becomes laggy and choppy during crucial moments but only for you. It occurs the most when you are one game away from promotion. This is EA’s scheme to give you tough games by placing bias against you instead of giving you better players cause the better players are already in higher division. The simple idea is to create a drama and make you spend more time in the game pr make you spend money.
If you want a game to relax and have fun, sorry but this game is not for you. They only think from business perspective and it’s more like a casino kinda objective oriented game than a fun game.