What level are you playing?
Last night I was on for one more match, kept playing on professional. Defense is starting to make more sense now. It is heavily based on positioning, so some tactics simply won´t work against CPU sometimes. Still, I had my share of challenge. Against England I had a 1-1 draw, lucky result again to be honest. Semi final against France, they scored 2 goals, by stupid individual mistakes on defence. A bit of bad AI and also a lack of my own reflexes to fix the situation. I moved BSilva and Guedes up the pitch, to play as wingers, and France was literally sleaping on the result, it was really noticeable. Guedes had some momentum and he scored the first on a rebound. He´s confidence was high, and on a tense cross he heads it in for the equalizer. France got all messed up, they simply couldn´t cope whith Silva, Ronaldo and Guedes for the rest of the match. Sadly I lost on the penalties, but with a sense of satisfaction for the match I just had.
Then I started a CL with Benfica, same settings. Gotta say I tried the simple settings on tactics and I kinda liked it. Against Ufa, started to look like a walk in the park, but on a counter they scored. I started to push more and more, and scored 2, with a lovely free kick at the end. Next, Ajax on my turf. Game was tight, not a lot of pressure from both teams, but hard to break each one´s defence. Very few half chances, but such an exciting match! Second half I was having momentum, creating more and more chances, closer to goal, so close I could smell it! 86´, and Ajax caught me on my own momentum, over confindent, and I lost a simple ball on my own box. My mistake... a very stupid one, I was actually thinking at the time "ah Professional level is a bit easy after all" and BAM, 0-1 to Ajax. Of course I tried everything to get the equalizer, but time was running fast and I lost the match.
So yeah, just one match at the beginning and I found myself playing until 4 am... This game has something. And damn, if your tactic is right, CPU plays so varied. I can see players looking everywhere for 5 or 6 seconds, holding the ball, trying to find a pass. They do try diferent things, it´s a joy to see!