head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
An arcade-style American football simulation with licensed NFL teams.

Execution · Competitive PvP
Football stick execution and opponent reading, salted with bounce-of-the-ball luck.
ESPN NFL PrimeTime 2002 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); FIFA Soccer 07 leans Execution (Competitive PvP).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
ESPN NFL PrimeTime 2002
player control precision on plays
FIFA Soccer 07
Stick skills and timing on passes and finishing
FIFA Soccer 07 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
ESPN NFL PrimeTime 2002
reading opponent playcalling in human matches
FIFA Soccer 07
Versus humans, baiting tackles and disguising attacks matters
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
ESPN NFL PrimeTime 2002
play outcome randomness meaningful
FIFA Soccer 07
Deflections and keeper randomness swing single matches
ESPN NFL PrimeTime 2002 leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
ESPN NFL PrimeTime 2002
playbook and roster strategy solvable
FIFA Soccer 07
Formations and exploit patterns are learnable meta
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.