You started out ok, showing that Pirlo made a bunch of tackles, but trying to prove your point that he's some defensive destroyer by showing that our defenders made no tackles (gasp) is cherry picking. Here's the defense's contributions:
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There are other defensive stats other than tackles you know. Brillant and Sweat made ZERO embarrassing plays to give up a goal, and they hid behind a player in the wall ZERO times.
Finally, here's the point you don't get. You can make a hundred tackles in the game, but if you mail it in at the top of the 18 against Giovinco, you did a bad job defending. Thats why he can't play, because he's exposable. A good team will get him to defend against their best player and all it takes is one or two moments to lose a game.
Combine that with the fact that NONE of Pirlo's orgasm-inducing passes led to a quality chance and he is a net negative.
This is a little glib. There is def more to defense than tackles but Giovinco has proved he'll out maneuver some of the best defenders in the game. Whatever Pirlo's faults were against Gio shouldn't detract from an otherwise respectable defensive performance.
The wall- agreed. Poor form. No excuse.
The fact that Pirlo's passes didn't result in goals can rest on him alone. Blame those that failed to capitalize. Pirlo's part is to get the ball to the right person at the right time. As far that goes, it sounds like he was successful.
For 2 defenders to have zero tackles is far worse than any of Pirlo's shortcomings yesterday.