I also liked this engine the best. All the little details which made the match engine so great to begin with have been removed and the new one is dull and its got so bad I've actually turned it off. The original release had a good engine but it had the closing down issues and the disallowed goals bug. But other than that I thought it was about perfect. The new engine is unbalanced and produces too many stupid results and the number of shots is way over the top. The engine is currently as buggy as the first but lacks the quality of the original.
Hopefully it can be improved for the next patch as I feel its got worse and worse with the patches (other than the first beta).