2004 is the defenders knock you off the ball too easily when you try to dribble.

A guy like Vieri who is strong and very difficult to knock off the ball in real life is easily knocked off the ball in teh game.... Its like that too when you do it to the AI. Its easy to take the ball away from them,

Is there anyway to fight off the defenders?

What difficulty level are you playing on ?

Schills,

i am playing on Professional.