Matchmaking is unfair or rigged

I don’t disagree with you that this is unbalanced. I suspect what is happening is that there are so few players above +20 FC Champions that, at any given time, there just aren’t enough available players (e.g., in the +20 - +30 range) to get a match.

I will say that a big part of this is EA’s fault. There were a lot of us (myself included) who were climbing into the +20 - +50 ranks up until a month or so ago when they started tweaking VSA. The change was quite jarring when it occurred and now I reach +10 and I suddenly encounter far more possessions where my players make inexplicably poor touches, passes and/or shots making it next to impossible to climb anywhere near the next level (+20). It’s glaringly obvious that EA made a change and it has prevented a lot of us F2Pers with good (but not elite) squads (mine is 118 OVR) from climbing the ranks as high as we used to. Thus, everyone in those top tiers (like yourself) has fewer players to match with and you get more games like the one in the screenshot. Suffice it to say, it’s a completely fixable problem if EA wants to stop making users like me miserable with rigged/error-filled possessions.