I've come across this bug numerous times where after a whistle it will go to a syncing screen and then during that syncing screen it automatically does the faceoff by itself the player doesn't do it....
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Don't know if this will help you, but the fix in '22 (which they never fixed, a player figured it out), when it goes to the sync mode and you can't play, pause and go to controller settings and moves yours off your team and to the middle (so that your team is now computer controlled). Next whistle the syncing will stop and you can put your controller back. Happened to me 5-10 times in '22 and this always worked, not sure about '25. Good luck!