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1. CPU's pass accuracy should be toned down dramatically. It is ridiculous that a defender (even when under extreme pressure, sometimes even facing the wrong direction) should be able to execute a pinpoint 40 yard pass. Every time. On every level.

2. Player switching is horrendous. The directional switching is inaccurate to say the least. On the rare occasions where you are able to switch to the intended player, the switching input makes that player stutter, automatically giving the opponent a 2-3 yard advantage. Dumb

3. AI positioning awareness. Losing the ball is never fun, but there is no need for Konami to compound more misery by scripting the situation with poor animations, which "lock" your player for what seems like an eternity and then add AI incompetence on top. Example: the CPU tackles, you lose the ball. Your player goes into a "lost the ball" animation from which he takes ages to recover. The ball is now loose and the closest player is your teammate right there next to the ball. Instead of going toward the loose ball, he actually moves away in the opposite direction, leaving the CPU ages to reach the loose ball and take possession. Trying to override this with manual switching makes a bigger mess because one of your players has now moved away and the other is still in his "i lost the ball" animation.
Equally when you win the ball with a tackle, the ball is always chased only by the same player who tackled instead of the AI activating the nearest player. This results in really comical situations where the player nearest to the ball stands still and ignores the action leaving the ball tackler to run out of position to chase the ball.

Fix these three things Konami and you will have a winner!