yes, its a tactics problem. imagine if Football Manager-esque tactics were implemented, for example
PES has forever, since its ISS roots has always had a very in-depth tactics system. They just don't talk about it and market it hardly at all so you have to do all the learning and experimenting for yourself.
Its not going to be near football manager, that game is all tactics, because, well, you don't 'play' you 'manage' so it needs to be so crazy with depth. The irony being PES has most of that shown there in Football manager except (zonal marking/target man/playmaker).
Explore it, to the full capacity.
The only issue is we need to as a community like we have been making all the tactics for teams ourselves, though experimenting and understanding what is there. It takes a long time, and when you consider the amount of managerial sackings that happen and how much teams change their tactics and styles year upon year, its not a easy thing to do and get sorted, then take into account all the new players and their specific roles every year.
How the hell are Konami going to do 'Team ID' for Manchester united? How the hell will they play with Moyes this season? Same with Manchester City? We don't know, but we as a community can create this using the depth that is already there.
They replicate them, but not fully, they do not hold on to possession for long. If you look at the match stats, Madrid (the player) actually has more possession 55%-45%
1. Play longer matches for that to happen.
2. It depends on your tactics also, if you play normally or push up with an attacking formation, they will just look to counter you.
Don't expect them to hold the ball for the very sake of it, if they see a space, Xavi etc.. will exploit it, one of the reasons they keep so much possession is because 90% of teams just stick 11 behind the ball, even with a counter attacking formation they stick numbers behind then press high.
You can see this in the game, Ricky likes to attack with Madrid, he was leaving a lot of space in behind for Barca just to exploit.
You can't expect Barca to dominate a 10/15 minute game with possession (which they can and have done to me a few times, with say 55/45 possession etc..), you wouldn't have any chance. If you want Barca holding onto possession for ages, you will see that in 30 minute matches. I mean if Barca do what they normally do in 10/15 games, half the game would go by with them trying to create one chance. You hav people complaining and issues where players would play Barca with the score being 0-0, with the entire match centred about about 4-5 Barca chances in 10 minutes
Barca do replicate very well on PES 2013 for 10/15 minutes, there is still much room for development but its great how it is and it very much does its job. (These are the settings I made, not default Konami ones.)
'Team ID' has been in PES for years, With some stability in programming hopefully in the future we can look forward to creating tactics being programmed into managers in master league and training ground routines which seem to be these new 2014 developments being put in, along with added depth to what is already there.
I think if anything it would be an aesthetics things if brought in, because the tactics are there.