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 · Competitive PvP
Football stick execution and opponent reading, salted with bounce-of-the-ball luck.

Execution · Competitive PvP
Court timing and play-reading in an early team-management basketball sim.
FIFA Soccer 07 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); TV Sports Basketball 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.
FIFA Soccer 07
Stick skills and timing on passes and finishing
TV Sports Basketball
Timing shots and movement on court matters most
FIFA Soccer 07 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
FIFA Soccer 07
Versus humans, baiting tackles and disguising attacks matters
TV Sports Basketball
Human opponents reward reading plays and fakes
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
FIFA Soccer 07
Deflections and keeper randomness swing single matches
TV Sports Basketball
Shot success has built-in randomness
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
FIFA Soccer 07
Formations and exploit patterns are learnable meta
TV Sports Basketball
Substitutions and strategy management add a layer
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.