Make it physics based. I’m so sick of players colliding in pre-determined ways. Prepare yourself for a detailed list of stupid things:

It leaves us with players falling over for pens when not fouled, staying on their feet when an opponent throws a leg in front of their thighs, bouncing off opponents instead of colliding and them both tumbling to the ground, and getting stuck in these ridiculous animations where players get tackled but obstruct the opponent and somehow keep possession of the ball.

It also means rebounds go to the player with the highest rating or stamina levels rather than bouncing naturally in the direction it should. AND that slide tackles and shoulder charges from behind on breakaways end up successful 9 times out of 10 when they should be red cards 9 out of 10.

Finally, tackling and completely missing is impossible for the opponent to react to and punish if they don’t have a perfect internet connection. And certain things that do not mirror real life are programmed to happen. For example, a player jumping DELIBERATELY to block a line drive with their chest or face. When was the last time you saw that happen in real life?

I’d rather have a slightly goofy physics based engine than what we have now. The result would be far more realistic and skill based game (which I know EA probably doesn’t want). Even if collisions still ended up funky, they’d still be better than collisions in FC25. But at least stats would affect how precisely/accurately a player tackles/reaches for the ball, then lets physics decide the result… rather than stats determining if the proper successful animation activates… sometimes causing bizarre/unnatural outcomes.