It's not challenging. I dribbled a lot last PES. There was something I noticed in the game that you can use pressure spammers' momentum against them. Drop the shoulder, opponent goes the other way no problem. It's possible even this year but there's one problem, the opponent's defenders have less momentum. Regardless of how much they rush into you, they will turn as you do. By the way I'm talking about the pressure spamming guys. I'm not talking about people who can defend in a clean manner, who track your movement, jockey/contain, etc. It was awfully easy last year getting past the guys who thought having good defenders meant good defence. PES20, when Van Dijk or Chiellini or whoever rushes in, it's difficult gliding past em because the defender is somewhat attached to the player in possession. Now if fouls were properly called this wouldn't be an issue because my opponent would like be cautious in the situation but there are no fouls in the game and this is why dribbling isn't worth it. You'll just lose the ball even if you time your movements perfectly. That's why everyone plays a ping pong this year. Last year it was a lot more varied..

I'm just using a roundabout way for saying defenders are somewhat overpowered thus nerfing dribbling in the process. Konami didn't make dribbling challenging at all. They just buffed up defenders. Funny enough the same defenders go stupid when someone hits a through ball between em but that's something I'm not even interested talking about. The game is not a total mess. I can tell there's a good game under there. I just wish Konami removed the training wheels they put in this year because they're not helping at all...