Yeah, first touch feels a bit more real. You can stop them dead as well but have to be standing perfectly still which obviously isn't a great idea in most online encounters or against high level AI offline.
Played a bunch more Pro Clubs on the weekend, this time in drop in matches where my latency wasn't awful. A couple of MoM awards and some clean sheets when playing in goals, so clearly I am not absolutely terrible at this and the lag just ruins me when playing in my UK based Pro Clubs team