I can buy into that, and I fully emphasise with your predicament. So get them beat, put it to bed, and get with the programme. What I love about the lesser teams is that everything is so much more balanced and realistic. If one of your lesser players scores a 30 yard stunner, you never forget it, ever. If Ibra or Messi, Klose or Ribery score the same goal, it's almost forgotten in an instance, they are ten a penny.
I really dont understand people's reaction to the referees, I think they are brilliant overall. People need to start to learn the art of defending in PES 2011, Konami have given us a system now where skill and technique is required, also perfect timing and the ability to judge distance. It winds me up that people cannnot see this. How about you stop running into your opponent and pressing X. This isnt like any other PES, you simply cannot do this anymore, neither can you run into a player with L1 and expect just to win the ball. This is so much more advanced. Defending is an art form, learn it.
You now have the ability to stick in a leg, so time it right, and you will not give away silly needless fouls. I have played over 100 games so far on this new demo, and these are the best referee's I have seen. Of course their is the odd yellow card when it could have been red, and there is the odd cynical challenge that goes unpunished, and vice versa, but this is football, and referees are not perfect in real life. PES 2011 does a very good job of replicating this, easily the best referee's I have seen in PES.
The referee does blow alot on Top Player, and against the CPU, which is great. Top Player AI is notoriously brutal in this regards, they play total spoiler tactics, but at least they are getting penalised for it, and I'm getting a setpiece out of it. Which are very dangerous in the right hands. The only time I give away silly fouls with the X is when I'm being lazy or not concentrating. I know when I've just stuck a foot at the wrong time, and 8 times out of ten I'll get pulled for it. And so I should.
Learn how to defend properly and forget everything you ever knew, or whatever worked before, because now it's real, and if you cannot appreciate that then more fool you.