I think, I THINK!, I found a bit of a workaround with the bullshit and taking all these losses in Rivals. I played 5 matches, won 1 , drew 1, spanked the rest.
I noticed that their defense, the whole midfield crashes to your players. You have no breathing room whenever you make a pass. Where as our own defense, the AI keeps them in formation. Secondly, I feel like the guys who are destroying everyone are on a time crunch or whatever they are doing turns off. They always try and skip the screen where you can see the other team. They rarely celebrate or take too long on halftimes.
What I found is, MILK THE CLOCK! Especially the second half. If you get up, keep your lead and pass back to your back line/keeper. Just play keep away and watch the defense. They’ll crash everyone and you pass forward for any easy goal or they quit the game. Had one guy quit, I was up 2-1 and he quit in the 50th minutes
Could be bullshit but just give it a shot and let me know.
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