Your strikers and second strikers will suddenly forget how to run for an opportunity. They will rarely ever try to run behind the defenders in hopes of getting a through ball. Even if you manually order one to run ahead (L1+R3 in player's direction), they'll fucking run between two or three opponent players!
Ball control becomes utterly shit. Your players will forget how to trap the ball half decently. They'll take forever to trap it and control it giving enough time for the fucking keeper to leave his place and go take the ball (exaggeration, yeah). If you try to have them trap it quickly and move, you're more likely to have them outright fucking leave it behind or push it ridiculously ahead of them for the opponent to easily take it.
Dribbling, FUCKING, DRIBBLING!!! It turns into a complete disaster! Freaking Leonel Messi won't be able to run properly with the ball without pushing it far ahead for the opponent to take it. It's fucking slow too, if you manage to tackle and get the ball at the tip of the center circle closest to your opponent's goal, the fucking strikers who were just outside your penalty box will catch up to you! And don't get me started on feints and turns, they become shitty and useless, that is IF you manage to perform them successfully without having the ball (un)conveniently flung right to at your opponent, again, even if it's freaking Leonel Messi!
Passes, FUCKING, PASSES! This will become an absolute NIGHTMARE if you're in BAL where you can't control the rest of the team! Most the time, your passes will be closer to the opponent than to your desired direction. There was a time when I cut in from the wing and I ABSOLUTELY directed my pass at the free striker in the box, only for my man to fucking pass to outside the penalty area where the midfielders fucking took the ball!! And in BAL, there was a match where every fucking time the players made short passes, they kicked the ball fucking ridiculously ahead of the intended receiver only for a midfielder or a defender to cut it! That's when the distance between them and the intended teammate doesn't exceed 10 meters!! That's short passes, which means long passes are even shittier. It doesn't matter what it is or where you push the analog stick. Chipped through balls, long passes, lofted long passes, every single one of them will disobey you and go in a different direction that is more convenient to the opponent. Not that it helps though since as I said, your strikers will forget basic attacking tactics. They will fucking run parallel to the ball and NOT go take it unless it comes to them and touches them which will obviously give the defenders time to get it even if they were meters behind them and the ball.
Finishing, FUCKING, FINISHING!! I kid you not, I will be RIGHT IN FRONT THE GOAL WITH ABSOLUTELY NO ONE BETWEEN ME AND THE KEEPER, I WILL DEFINITELY TARGET THE RIGHT OR LEFT CORNER WHERE EVEN FREAKING NEUER OR BUFFON CAN ONLY DREAM TO STOP THE BALL, YET THE STRIKER WILL ALWAYS FUCKING KICK THE BALL FUCKING BLOODY DIRECTLY AT THE KEEPER!!!!! Your controller input means shit when the game wants you to lose!! Freaking Ronaldo will kick the ball worse than me in real life! How bad am I? I can barely manage to make the ball go in a half decently straight path! Most my shots will stray far to the left or to the right! That's how bad freaking CR7 will be shooting! And the strength of the shot, bullshit, man! All of this will await you, given that you actually managed to have your striker's foot hit the ball to begin with. I'm talking about how your striker will enter the box, and like an idiot, he keeps running and tapping the ball forever after you actually hit the shoot button and the bar appeared on screen. Obviously, the keeper will easily take the ball. If you try to shoot from just outside the box, the ball will go directly to the keeper even if you target a corner, go ridiculously to the far left or right, or fucking hit your own teammate who went out of his way to get right in front of you to stop you from scoring as if he's been bribed to thwart his own team!!
Defending? FUCK.THIS.SHIT! I can write a whole essay on defending alone! When the shitty cheating mode kicks in, taking the ball from your opponent will become so fucking difficult you should be awarded the Noble prize if you succeed! Here's something I wrote before about this:
Real Madrid VS Fucking Tel Aviv . 25 to 75 possession rate respectively . Let that sink in for a while .
No , my players were not in terrible form . Most of them were in top form . And no , they were not cowardly playing complete possession game . They constantly attacked from every possible angle yet it's fucking impossible to stop them no matter what . If I tackle them and they trip , the ball sticks to their legs like glue , if I succeed in a standing tackle , the ball will ALWAYS , no matter what , go back to them , if I slide tackle one of them , he fucking falls in the same place OVER THE BALL so that I can't get it , if I succeed in a sliding tackle and I do take the ball , my player will fucking stumble on himself for 3 fucking seconds , more than enough for the guy who just got launched in the air by my tackle to stand up again and reclaim it , if a miracle happens and I succeed in a sliding tackle , the opponent's player doesn't fucking fall on the fucking ball , and my player doesn't fucking stumble on himself like a few months old baby learning to stand , another one of their players who was 15 fucking meters away reaches me and takes the ball in 3 to 4 seconds ! YES , I COUNTED ! That's fucking 4 to 5 meters PER FUCKING SECOND ! That , is a big middle finger to freaking Usain Bolt !
Adding to that, no matter how fast your defender or left back usually is, they will NOT be able to catch up to the midfielder with a shitty rating of 67 running with the ball. If you were already close enough when he received the pass, he'll suddenly become the incredible Hulk and will be impossible to shake even if he's a shrimp standing at 168 centimeters!! Heck, Fellaini will more likely be blown away!! Your defenders' response time will become well over fucking 9000!! There will even be times when they will FUCKING STOP DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS WHEN THE BALL IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM!! Even worse than that, THEY WILL FUCKING STOP AND RUN IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND LET THE STRIKER GO ONE ON ONE WHERE HE WILL FUCKING BLOODY SHITTY SCORE!!! I don't care what fanboys say, this is fucking sadistic cheating from Fucknami!!
Speed? Ha! Nice one! I'm a slow runner (I can jog and walk long distances, but that's besides the point) and I can run as fast and sometimes faster than them when cheat mode kicks in. Their center backs will be running with the ball faster than Gareth Bale WITHOUT THE BALL!! And like I said before, if a miracle happens and you intercept their pass once and dash for the goal, not only will your usually fast forward run like he has nails in his boots, but THEIR forwards who were just outside your penalty box will have caught up to you!!
Body balance, also shit. Even Marwan Fellaini will get blown away by (Formerly) Tottenham's Lennon and lose the ball and then stumble as he tries to stand again for 5-10 seconds!! And no, the fucking referee won't book it.
Goalkeeping, FUCKING FUCKERY FUCKFUCKING, BLOODY FUCKING GOALKEEPING!!!!!! I'll summarize this in the WORST example to ever happen to me with regard to this. I played against Ajax and managed to get a lead of 3 goals. Not only did they score back three fucking goals again in less than 15 minutes (of INGAME time, not real world time), but they scored a fourth in a way that makes whoever is responsible at Konami so disgusting they should commit
Seppuku!! How bad? I pressed (Y), or triangle on the PS controller, to have De Gea come out to clear the ball. It was clear that it's impossible for them to reach the ball before he does even with the fucking scripted added speed given to them. Yet somehow, the game had the fucking audacity to make freaking De Gea STOP RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BALL AND LEAVE IT BE SO THAT IT CAN FUCKING SCORE!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYTHING ELSE PALES IN COMPARISON TO THIS!!!!!!! FUCK YOU, KONAMI!!!!!!!!!
That's it for how the game butchers your own players' performance. Next will be how it fucking makes your opponent's players look like Superman, Hulk, and Flash, all combined!!!