Tactically, you have to slide down on your dpad and get more men beehnd the ball when the CPU are deep in your territory, if you can even select counter attack as a tactic if your buried in your own end. Like I said, you gotta be a little dynamic and constantly change up your tactics this year.
In this video, when the guy on the ball out on the edge of the box, you were controlling the man in front of him. Never do that against good teams, you needed to control the midfielder behind (and goalside to the guy on the ball) then call your help, which would have enabled your defender, and he would have kept in front of the attacker with the ball... get into your jockey stance with your controlled player (the midfielder) and as the off -the-ball CPU attacker makes his run, you need your guy to fill that space and take that option for the cutback pass in.
If the CPU attempts that pass, knock it down with your circle button, or slide right across and kill the pass back into your defenders who are there for the easy clearance.
Once you killed that passing lane, then you could apply pressure and tackle the ball carrier or force him into your defender who would make the tackle.
your left back was already on the flank for the outlet pass and from there if your in counter attack, a lobbed through ball long to your striker, or pass it out onto your winger would have had the ball going the other way.
It's not ice hockey, you don't relentlessly attack the puck carrier, you want to use up the space around the ball carrier, limit or stop his options and then dispossess him or wait for the bad pass into traffic for the turnover.
now all of this is fine for me to say ... but executing is much much harder. Which is what I like about the game. you have to execute for the full 90 minutes and its possible one single lapse is the difference in winning or losing or a draw. pretty realistic imo
Another thing ... the CPU is way to clinical in front of goal. I raised their shot error to 60 (or maybe 65, I should go check) ... They're hitting more woodwork, side of nets and having the complete and utter howler from time to time as well.
To balance up the CPU's advantage on WC level, raising human pass speed to 60 and spd & acc to 53 (for human only) is a must!
Good tactical football basics and a few sliders along with tactics which noticeably work this year, makes it the best football sim since PES 6. hands down.