Defending in Fifa can be really fun and rewarding, but it requires very careful and cautious approach.
But, like Chris said, Im talking about user defending only. Everything around it is... well... there is nothing around it...
Especially when (I apologize in advance for making a comparison in this thread) PES' slide tackling is something out of Bizzaro world. FIFA is pretty good about making contextual tackles, with the occasional oddity of them leading with the wrong foot/type of sliding challenge. which hey, happens in real life. Whenever I boot up PES, I'm absolutely terrified of going to ground. It feels like the intentional foul button in FIFA 97 where you straight up butcher the opposition. Might as well be playing Yakuza.