You have to actually be able to control and carry a ball to be tackled.
Not sure why you feel the need to bring in Bruno and Sancho but let's take a look at the stats of all the starting forwards shall we?
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Player | Min | Sh | SoT | Touches | Press | Tkl | Int | Blocks | xG | npxG | xA | SCA | Pass Cmp | Pass Att | Pass Cmp% | Pass Prog | Carries | Prog Carries | Dribble Succ | Dribble Att |
Cristiano Ronaldo | 90 | 4 | 1 | 33 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 94.7 | 2 | 25 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Anthony Elanga | 90 | 3 | 0 | 61 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1 | 35 | 45 | 77.8 | 3 | 46 | 13 | 3 | 6 |
Bruno Fernandes | 90 | 8 | 2 | 94 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 7 | 65 | 82 | 79.3 | 4 | 73 | 11 | 2 | 3 |
Add Pogba in for laughs and it's the same story by the way. His fellow starting attacking players outperform him heavily in just about every stat bar pass % which he attempted by far the fewest (just about half of Elanga's and in comparison to Bruno, it's just laughable).
The only other stat is shot creation actions, where he only outperforms Elanga.
In regards to taking care of the ball, he mis-controlled passes into him, particularly in the second half, and things didn't even get to the point at which he could pass it.
And as I said, and insist, he does lose almost all duels. Not because he gets tackled, but he's unable to gain possession of the ball in the first place as he gets easily outfought.
One could backtrack and say he isn't there to be a specialist in creation but in scoring, but he aint doing that is he? And you talk about folks inventing myths? The irony!