Description of issue
Hello, so I am playing a manually enabled Lithuanian league save (the league is not good) and found that in lower leagues, especially after the 22.2 update, the teams are achieving unrealistic pass completion rates and tiki-taka/control possession game is overpowered.
Firstly, for like-to-like comparison let's start with EFL League Two Statistics.
The pass completion percentage in real life:
The pass completion percentage in the game (basically every team 85-87% pass completion):
Now, let's go back to the Lithuanian league's in-game statistics:
For comparison, let's look at La Liga where some of the most technically gifted players are playing in the world:
Now you could argue that the pressing is more high and much more clever at higher levels so you can't compare them but if you check pass completion percentage statistics across multiple leagues in Europe, you will find one general trend - the lower is the level of the league, the lower is the percentage of pass completion.
However, in FM that's not the case this year and is supported also by in-game results and some other people comments/discussions:
The point here is that in lower leagues the direct game should almost always be preferred and tiki-taka styles should only be good in leagues where players have technicals/mentals to perform that.
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