#PirloStyle.
Our friend Graham Parker published an excellent analysis on ESPN FC of Sunday's game at Yankee Stadium. His take centered on Andrea Pirlo, whose brilliant playmaking skill set is tempered by the need to place tough box-to-box types around him, owing to his inability to defend. Check out the article-- as with anything with Graham's name on it, it's worth your time.
Today, we're crunched some numbers to get an even better understanding of how Pirlo's talents work -- or don't, as is sometimes the case -- in the NYCFC system.