My experience seems to have a pattern in ‘big games’:
1 - if the CPU gets a shot in the first 10 mins of the game, it will be a golazo - even if it is some 75 rated CAM
2 - in half the games the CPU will dive in with two feet studs up and get a red card
3 - if you go up, it dies down for a bit…until a garbage PK is awarded
4 - if you stay up, there will be a heroic goal while you can only hit the woodwork, your passes go 90 degrees from where you aim, and players will not obey the controller and run off the ball
Also, and may this is just bad luck, but I keep a bunch of youth players out on loan and 2/3 are now getting ratings in the low 5s and are in bad form.
Sucking the fun out of something once enjoyable.