Fifa 09 online experience

[lujer]

Hello everybody,

I recently got into playing fifa again and started playin online again. I usually enjoy it but sometimes I face an opponent who usually chooses man u. When they do I choose man u as well.
Well I just finished a game where I think all of my players were slower and stronger than mine. Further it seemed that all my players passing abilities were horrible.Whenever I passed the ball the receiving player would instantly get tackled by an opponent.
He did fiddle around alot before the game loaded setting up his team.
Does anybody know what is going on?
Granted he was a much better player than I but he seemed to have an unfair advantage.
Should I just suck up the loss or is there something fishy going on?
As I recall this type off play got me off online fifa the last time i played it.