I had this happen while on my laptop. We were up 2-0 but then we went really quiet and it got back to 2-2. So I thought I'd change the settings, only to find they'd been changed to Hard Defend/ Easy tackling/ No Counter attacks. The final result was 2-2. I reset the settings then.
I checked them before the next game and they had changed back to the bad settings by themselves! I changed back to what I wanted and check them all the time now.