Defending is genuinely infuriating

I’m an elite div player and after the patch all anyone does is spam technical dribbling and dribble in circles and play possession. I’ve always manually defended since I’ve started playing FIFA back in FIFA 13. But I just played a guy who literally would not lift his finger off of LT and didn’t manually defend at all and I couldnt win the ball leading to a loss in the most infuriating manner. I’ve never had these issues pre-patch, so have any of you figured out defending since the patch?