TO FACE = if you face or are faced with a difficult situation, it is going to affect you and you must deal with it:
• When it comes to designing for the web, you are faced with the unique challenge that different users will have different sized screens.
• Spain's coach Vicente del Bosque faces tricky task to select Spain squad.
• The civic body faces uphill task to improve school infrastructure.
TO CONFRONT = if a problem, difficulty etc confronts you, it appears and needs to be dealt with:
• Useful suggestions for trying to confront a lying romantic partner or spouse.
be confronted with something
• Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
• How to predict customer choices, when they are confronted with multiple options for where to dine.
• Research has shown that when customers are confronted with pleasant actions, the result is high levels of customer satisfaction