The only quote that would describe this game is - "can't make sense out of nonsense"

You can tweak with the tactics until the next "saint Gennaro" you will ultimately lose more often than not, simply put this game has totally lost its course. Few years ago you at least had a chance with hard defending or defending with counters...nowadays you do not have any leverage to use against your opponent.

Case in point is my association match, the opponent had a 170% striker, even 5-4-1 could not handle him and i had a 148% defender with other good defenders around him. He played a 4411, so i guess suffocating his striker doesn't replcate on the field since my zonal defending is again man to man when you look at the animation....

Not only do your tactical instruction not matter but there are so many "frenzy" mutant teams this is insane....Pay to win and that's that

Without it you are doomed, once in a while you will win something but that is it....there were times that you had like maybe one team with 110% max....now i have my competitions filled with 130% teams....maybe it is time to buy FM 23