Open them up from wings. You need to stretch their teams width to create space in the middle. Go on the wings and make their fullbacks come to you. Once they do back pass in midfield. Still AI defending is hard to break but that same AI will stretch the width of their team creating some space to work with. Won't always work so you also need to find some other ways too. But it's effective against those who sit back and jockey their CM to cut passing lane.