To me it feels something has changed. My first team is unable almost to win anything. All draws and losses against teams that use hard defense. With that I mean 9 players to the mid line like a 4-4-2 formation. Or a 3-2-3 formation (3dc - dml/dcmr-3mc). I get stuff like 29 shots and not a single goal. And that was against a team that was 40%!!!! weaker then i was.
To me it feels like there is a feature I haven't found out yet to properly manage the team on the new field. The whole stuff about highlighted fields and where to put players are jibberish to me.