First of all, hello and thank you for taking the time to read this.

Now then, since neither Google nor EA's patches have helped so far, what Google and some of the forum pages found here DID show me was that this issue has apparently been happening since FIFA 17, so it's been a problem for roughly 3 years now, which leads me to believe that a patch or update is "not exactly" around the corner.

Basically every single time I want to play a "KICK OFF" match with a friend, our controls constantly reset, which means that we have to manually set them to our liking each and every single time we want to play a match in the "KICK OFF" mode, and that is not what I payed 60 euros for...

But that's not all. They don't just reset after restarting the game or upon reentering the "KICK OFF" mode. Even though we both select the "Customise Controls" option in the "SIDE SELECT" menu and configure the controls, they reset a few seconds later as soon as we have chosen our preferred sides and then we have to reconfigure them AGAIN in the "CONTROLLER SETTINGS" menu before selecting "PLAY MATCH"...and to further complicate things, for some reason, this also happens from time to time while playing the game...when we're already in the match. I mean...seriously?

As for the settings themselves (ALL of which reset, so both the "Trainer", "Timed Finishing" etc. menu and the buttons menu), mine are rather easy to configure button-wise since I'm playing with an XBOX 360 controller, but an even bigger and more frustrating issue are the controls my friend has to reconfigure since he plays with the keyboard (he's not exactly a fan of controllers, but that's beside the point), and here I'm referring to the buttons specifically which are not only designed very, VERY poorly (I've been playing FIFA titles since '95, so what exactly is this "Space to shoot", "j to pass", and the "WSAD" keys to move nonsense that began some years back...?), but also do no reflect what you change them with.
Two short examples are the fact that after configuring his buttons the way past FIFA titles intended ("WSAD" to sprint, pass, lob pass and shoot respectively, while moving with the arrow keys), for them to actually work, I have to reverse "Sprint" with "Player Run/Modifier" and "Short Pass/Header" with "Lob Pass/Cross/Header" and so on. Again, come on...

So what I'm asking for here (because if nothing has been done in 3 years, I'm obviously not expecting a "miracle patch" anytime soon) is more or less of a workaround of sorts...I mean I would very much appreciate it if someone (be it an EA employee or merely a simple player like me who has either encountered this issue or not) could provide at least a temporary fix or something...

Thank you in advance.