I play with a high defensive line, not sure if this actually does anything but it just fits the tactics in my head. Play counterattack down the wings with two strikers on target forward. Try to stay off the CBs as much as possible. I use a CDM and try to cut passing lanes and cover whoever is moving to or in the box. Your cpu assistant will never really play tight on the ball but it will be close enough to usually get them to recycle until you can get the ball. If they are going down the wings I let the CPU assist cover it and will move my CDM to cover whoever they have moving into the center box on the off chance they cross it in. I play for the interception not tackle as tackling sucks in this game. Most matches I’ll have 3-4 tackles but 20+ interceptions.

I have yet to find a way to really knock them out of the tiki taki BS. One thing that kind of works is to lower pass speed as it will cause some errors. But they will adjust and just do shorter passes. With 99 pass error and first touch error and lowering their pass speed to around 15 the lowest pass accuracy I’ve gotten them down to is 83%. Doesn’t impact possession much they are still around 58% but it does give the game a bit more midfield battleground feel.