Don't use it against people online though, they will just ping-pong it round without even having to think while you have work hard to put 4 or 5 passes together 
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I've seen people somehow get away with doing this on manual as well which leads me to believe that manual passing isn't ENTIRELY manual at all. Obviously it's almost at the point there is no pass assist but I've played against more than a few guys who (after inviting them to a match from a lobby and making it manual w/o them knowing

sometimes are able to just fire a really long and slow pass across the field that my player should be able to pick off. For some reason they just don't respond though.
What really pisses me off though is the guys that get the ball when they realize it's on manual and just hoof it forward to a fast striker. I've come across a number of high ranked guys who use the dream team glitch to put Torres, Ibra, Ronaldo, and classic players on one team and just fire it forward. It's clear that the ball isn't completely detached from anyone as sometimes even my defenders who are close to it will just make a b-line for it. I know they're also using stat boosting as well as I simply cannot get away from any of them.
Question though, manual is obviously a good way to simulate realistic soccer, but I'm not the only one that's found that the constant 2nd defender pressure is still just as powerful on manual as well?
I played against a guy who was admittedly good at shooting on manual (not sure how) because I still can't seem to put shots on target with consistency unless it's a slow roller straight at the keeper, but in addition to his high line, the moment I got close to him he was running at me and my players didn't seem to want to get into any sort of space to receive a pass. Also, when I'd take the ball away from him, he'd recover instantly and just run right back into me.
^^Does anyone know how people do that? Recover and steal the ball back right away, make their players so much faster than mine, and play with this formation/tactics that somehow makes my players never move into space or make intelligent runs (when the game right before, against a different guy, I was able to tear him apart even with him pressuring me) and make my defense play like idiots?
It's only every once in a while that I come across a guy that I simply cannot get past midfield on. There are spaces to exploit, but my players, for some odd reason, never decide to move. And if they do, I get tackled before I can make the pass through to them. This was against a guy who showed up in the "all-manual" thread on EA's forums. I played against one other dude who was good and didn't pressure constantly. The games were fun and realistic. This new guy though is most definitely a cheeser. Didn't even think it was possible on manual. But it is.