Hi. I first wanted to say that i'm deeply impressed with the game, overall it's pretty great. This first campaign, the live events that has brought sense to playing during the week and other new additions make the game too much enjoyable to play.
Talking about online gameplay, i want to be honest and polite. Playing attack is awesome, it really is a big difference playing with a common gold with only good pace rather than a overall good player with great stats. Although there're some things to fix like players being fidget spinners, even playing in attack is annoying because sometimes is very unpredictive turning towards goal and you lose sight of your own player. Also, trying to do triangle passes is pretty impossible during attack, even when players are all alone. Attacking players keep passing the ball to the lone defender that is in the middle of both attacking players, just awful.
Now talking about the defense, it's pretty trash. I read too many comments complaining about it and having experienced it, i can confirm it. I also have read that a patch is coming soon so i expect that it fixes these many problems. Like i said before, defending this spinner players is awful because you don't never know when or where is the player going and your own defender is dancing in ice, too much unpredictive. Then, when you try to clear the ball with a short pass, there's always an offensive player intercepting the pass and you end up conceding a goal. Also, defense sometimes split up and gives a clear path for offensive players to score, even when you attack.
Even though i experienced this kind of "problems", i honestly think that the game has taken a great leap and it will be a great year of playing, not as previous years. I obviously don't expect the game to be as i want but there must be a balance between playing defense and attack.