Hey Marc,
Agreed on the bolded part, but they are doing the opposite now. You need the find the middle!
I'm playing as Man Utd in 4-4-2 formation with AML (Rashford and Sancho) and AMR (Antony and Pellistri), so IF's have plenty of space to cut inside, but for some reason they really don't. They tend to drift wide outside without the ball, as if they are standing on the side and watching the match, or they are running towards the corner flag with the ball, but not crossing in the end because of the wrong foot. Rarely they are doing what is expected of them.
I'm playing Pellistri as a Winger (because he is right-footed AMR) and the other three as Inside Forwards. The IF's are pretty much useless. They are geting poor to average ratings, in 10 games or so, Rashford and Antony (first choices) have 0 G/A, while Sancho has 1 assist. Pellistri on the other hand is much more effective as he is doing his Wingers job of getting past the full back and crossing byline.
As much as I agree that in past version IF's were sitting next to strikers, they were at least effective with providing G/A, but their behavious was unrealistic and annoying and I didn't like that.
While in this version it is much more realistic they they are staying out wide in the start and moving around much more, not being static and sitting next to the striker, they still need tweaking in terms of cutting inside without and especially with the ball and trying the create havoc in opp defense.
P. S. First season (6th of october):
Rashford (first choice): 11 app, 2 goals, 0 assists, average rating of 6,72.
Sancho (bench, being introduced at HT in almost every match): 8 app, 0 goals, 1 assist, average rating of 6,50.
Antony (first choice): 11 app, 0 golas, 1 assist, average rating of 6,53.
In my highly successful previous save game, in first three seasons, things were about the same.