Look at this

[Pete Cresswell]

It's a pity you can't set your players to 'leg breaking', it's be worth 5 red cards to see him have half a team out for 16 weeks after playing you!

Indeed! You could turn on "hard tackling" and see if you can hurt him a little. It might not help you go through, but if it discourages him from trying the same thing again ...