Pressing left shoulder button to select a player:
Sometimes it works correctly, but often the game will just continue to select the furthest player from the ball, preventing me from controlling any player near the action until my AI teammates happen to acquire the ball. If manual GK is on, it will keep selecting my GK (being the furthest back) constantly. The selector will flicker onto the correct nearest player for 0.2 seconds and then select the furthest player, making the game impossible to control. I've tried to resume a career and play multiple games on 4 separate occasions and every time this "bug" has occurred, forcing me to give up.

Starting stats are unrealistic:
In real life, even a person without any soccer skills can run. If they have any starting stats, it should be some running ability! Starting everyone at 0 skill is completely unrealistic. It can take 'forever' to run down the ball. I'm so slow, it's impossible to catch the ball passing by my players. It ends up bouncing way down field and often out of bounds before anyone can catch it.

No ability to aim shots and passes with the analog stick (you deserve a zero score for this alone). There is no excuse for being able to pass and shoot only in a 'general' direction (i.e. at 45 degree increments +- accuracy randomness).

Stun mechanic is stupid and indicates a lack of your ability to understand and program good/fun mechanics of the ball bouncing around between players. See Haxball comment below.

Throw-ins can cross the entire field and go out of bounds on the other side. The ball generally bounces and rolls out of bounds way too easily unless the field is soaking wet or snowy. Part of this is due to above -- players are too slow to ever catch the ball until it almost is stopped moving. Even in children soccer this does not happen!

AI opponents can steal the ball from behind me -- no way to shield the ball. The AI constantly is overrunning my players. It's impossible to keep the ball away from them for more than a few seconds.

If you kick the ball as a corner kick or goal kick is called, the game can get stuck. The ball doesn't 'teleport' to the corner kick spot. The AI players don't know what to do. The only player who can control the ball is the last one who touched it (usually my GK). There's nothing to do but quit the game when this happens! How can you not have a menu option or some way of forcing or bypassing or resetting the corner/goal kick. Or you could learn to program robust game management logic to never have such situations. I'm pretty sure it's because my kicking the ball interrupts the ball teleport function, and the game waits for the teleport to complete, but it didn't start, so it is stuck waiting forever.

If an AI opponent is on my back, there is no way to shake them off, get space, and pass the ball. The only option is to kick it the direction I'm facing, or have it taken away. Great gameplay depth, Batovi!

Most of the way through a career season and one player has half a star and most players still have almost zero stats. What kind of progression system is that??

I turn off management voices, yet they still laugh and make noises. And why do you have to wait for almost 6 seconds after their reaction before you can do anything?