I would like to play more through the middle but as you probably saw, almost every single team we play uses 6-7 players behind the ball at all times. It's not as common in '14 for some reason but in the higher divs on '13 almost every single team (90%) would run 5 man back lines with 2 DMs set to ultra-defensive and have 3 forwards cherry picking. The popular puber/favela tactic in '14 is to not use an any, cherry pick, and just have the CPU heave balls down the field, sprint into defenders and hope for a fortunate bounce. As you saw in that one game where we lost 3-0, you can be better than the other team and still lose on total shit goals, as that team readily admitted, lol
It's fun but if you are trying to play it entirely like real soccer it really just doesn't work. I play a ton of 1 touch stuff in Seasons that would never work here because everyone is moving around independently.
Additionally, you need fullbacks for defense, so you can't bring them forward. Thus it is usally 7-8 defenders left to deal with 3-4 attackers, and the wings is where the most space is. I'd prefer that we cut it back into the middle more often but alas, it's more difficult to succeed doing that.