can’t play rush with less than 4 in lobby (only my account, not friends)

I’m trying to play Clubs Rush mode with friends in FC 25 on ps5. The game fails to matchmake if we have less than 4 players in the lobby — we always get an error saying it can’t find teammates. However, solo Rush works fine, and we can play together in Drop-In and League matches without issue. This seems to be a consistent matchmaking bug. Please escalate this to the dev team or QA so it can be addressed in a future update.