talk of tactics, formations, etc. is meaningless when you are not actually controlling your guy for that vital second, not being allowed to even swing your leg to kick the ball, irrespective of whether he would have scored or smashed it past the post - the important factor is that you weren't allowed to kick the ball
"this sort of thing happens in real life" - i have yet to see in real life a guy become temporarily paralysed, just long enough to ensure a defender gets in to clear the ball
does anyone remeber that infamous spasm/twitching bug in WE6 where for about a second, your player could go into wweird spasm where he would stand there and flicker but you could not control?
the worst case I ever was when the ball broke to my guy in about 6 yards of space in the box and just as I was about to shoot, he went into this spasm and I could not move him until the ball had slowly rolled past his feet, meanwhile a defender trotted across and strolled off with the ball, then my guy comes back to life again - it was atrocious
for we7, all that's happened is that this spasm has been made less visually obvious - your guy does not stand there flickering any more but the impact is still the exactly same - you cannot control him for that vital second
the notion that the AI is nearly perfect is ludicrous - do you really think that in 15 years time we won't be looking back at WE7 and laughing at how crude the AI was?