I've been looking into this quite a bit, as game dev is a hobby of mine.
Look where the circle is. It's on your CB, the game is reading that as a bad pass to your CB.
What annoys people (myself included) with Fifa is we want the ball to go exactly where we aimed it in these situations and we want the ball to be assisted passing when it suits us too. On manual that doesn't happen and you CB runs back and gets the ball.
On assisted given how the game plays, the cpu has a choice, this is either a weak pass towards the goal keeper or a poor pass towards the CB, because of the lack of power the game reads it as a poor pass to the CB.
This doesn't mean the ball is going the way its aimed because assisted passing says "assist my passing for me and aim this towards the CB".
So basically what you end up with is a poor pass towards the CB, the random number generator is rolled and he's not getting the ball.
You are screwed.
Not to be a dick because since I stopped playing WL, I've been trying to learn and I've looked into the mechanics and it took me ages to learn this but you had two options here, hit it harder to highlight the keeper, or play the pass to feet of the CB. I find with Fifa the right option here is the GK pass or if worried press shoot to clear the ball. You possibly had the option of a long ball to the other FB too.
It's a case of game mechanics.
Of course the game doesn't show you this in WL as you can't have those things on, but this is a typical case of player not understanding the way the game works and I say this as someone who has broken 2 controllers over it this year.
This is the risk that comes with assisted passing. The game reads every "x" or "a" pass as a pass to feet, it chooses your target and judges how good the pass is. Then its some maths based off stats, some rng on whether its successful or not.
Another issue I have encountered like this in my own playing is aiming through balls into the space I want to play them instead of aiming them right at the man. I constantly do this and have to work hard to rectify it.
An example, I have a striker running clear. In perfect through ball position.
What I used to do was aim right where I thought striker and ball would meet, I would aim the pass where I wanted the ball to go. Game says bad pass to striker, my through ball would go wonky, I'd get angry.
What I should do, aim the rightstick at the striker and press through ball. Game says good accuracy and my through ball goes right to where I wanted it to go and to the position where I used to aim the stick.
I love his 86
