I have been trying to solve this because I like a pressing defense and the cpu is stupid.
I messed around with the marking slider and the tactics. This is what I found when using MLS teams.
Red Bulls are set to pressure on defense
I replaced the Orlando club and set the defense to balanced. I messed around with pressure and constant pressure settings but my team is too bad to be able to do that as the stamina is killed and it led to through ball spamming by the cpu for easy goals.
For the sliders, I set marking 90-100. This for the most part stopped cpu controlled defenders from running next to the ball or leaving a huge hole for a run into the box because they wanted to maintain shape but allow the easy goal.
I set the cpu to 60-70 and it helped make passing harder and cut down on the open runs. Plus the opponent is set to pressure so they were constantly there.
I had a great game yesterday 2-1 where I scored 1 FK just outside the box and the other was a nice volley off a deflected header. I gave up 1 goal on a counter run and the defense marked correctly but was outnumbered and left the trailing player open as expected.
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