I play the standard online seasons a lot with a friend round his house and the game seems woefully inconsistent. Some games everything is sharp and your players look like they are performing to their stats, then others you have people with 90+ pace being hunted down by slow defenders, making a simple pass yet the ball goes where it likes, being effectively clotheslined to the ground with a move not uncommon in the WWE but the ref gives nothing, through balls that seem to suddenly speed up at the end of their travel so the opposing keeper collects, poor AI that seem to wander off leaving you in a dire position when defending and then for some reason it takes a lifetime to be able to switch to them and move them back, etc, etc.
Honestly it's like playing against an EA conspiracy to ruin us sometimes. We aren't the best of the best but we won all games in div 2 to win the title so we aren't just rubbish and blaming anything we can. Some of the things that go on are ridiculous and rage inducing but they'll never bother fixing it.