The psychic clearances seem to mostly happen when the ball is traveling at a certain "reflex" velocity: clearing rebounds etc. But when the CPU steals the ball away from you in its end, it often takes its time and passes the ball sideways and even back to the GK. These are great new additions to the CPU on-the-ball game this year, and in fairness needs to be mentioned as well. The psychic clearances are new as well and appear to be some kind of funky and glitched by-product of this new CPU on-the-ball AI.