The game is very unbalanced right now. I'm what I'm about to tell you will not fix it but it will at least tilt the game towards balance. YOU HAVE TO NERF THE FIRST LONG PASS AFTER RECOVERING THE BALL!!! I have a few reasons why
1- the pass is too unrealistic. Long passes in real life are not as accurate as that first pass that people have been doing after recovering the ball. So pay attention to that. In that specific aspect you should try to make it more realistic
2- after some one has put the WHOLE Turkey in the oven by de-organizing their team by sending directed runs and give and gos. I believe, in my humble opinion that is unfair to then have someone who decided to stay back be on the counter so easily by making an unrealistic long pass that always connects. Dont get me wrong. Long passes should connect but not at that rate. I'm a veteran in the game and I played a park the bus guy that did the long pass accurately several times in a raw getting cheap opportunities after I was trying to break his defensive AI. That is not balance
3- you have to force people to make more than one pass after recovering the ball to be able to be in proper offensively threatening positioning. I think that would force people to be more aggressive on defense or risk to have to deal with pressure head on. The accuracy of that first long pass should definitely balance the gameplay more. You cant cheaply score after having the AI do more than 60 percent the work on defense and then you are in your opponent's box in 3 passes. No. Again you have to force people to have to build up from the back when they recover. Tiki taka approach will make the game more balanced. And less unfair.