I’m experiencing an unusual and absolutely frustrating bug in EA FC 26. When I enter an online match, my players completely lose my control. Let me explain: at the beginning of the match, if I have possession, I can usually build up an action, but as soon as I lose the ball, and until the end of the match, my players stop responding to my commands.
It happens in different ways: sometimes at least the pass, shot, and cross commands still work, but I can’t move the player. Other times the players just move randomly around the pitch (obviously without my control), and other times they simply stand still.
This has been happening since my very first online match in the game, and until now I haven’t been able to play a single complete online match. For the record, Squad Battles and Kick Off (offline modes) work perfectly fine. Only online doesn’t work, and it’s nerve-racking.
I lost my very first Draft match, and therefore also lost rewards and the chance to try out players I had packed; I lost all 5 matches of the event tournament because I kept trying to figure out if there was a way to fix the problem; I even tried a Rivals match, with the same outcome.
PLEASE fix this, because it’s embarrassing and I’ve already wasted 1 hour out of the 10 I had available with EA Play. I bought the Standard Edition, which I now truly regret, just because of the terrible evening I’ve had.