In the first half Dier received the ball 32 times, in the second half 14. In the last 36 minutes he received the ball 6 times. Those numbers back up what I am saying. None of those numbers (even the first half) are indicative of a player who particularly wants to be on he ball, but the drop off is absolutely stark and shows a player actively hiding because pressure is on. And it was a similar story for Winks 30/16/10.
You will argue that we as a team ran out of gas, but it's at best a 50/50 scenario - one of the reasons we ran out of gas was, as you said earlier, we lacked players who wanted to take the ball once the pressure was on, and a massive part of that is the midfield, if the midfield stops wanting the ball there is no way out but to whack it long, and wait for it to keep coming back, there is no conduit. And this has been Poch's biggest flaw in the last 2/3 years - asking CM2's with people like Dier and Sissoko to be conduits from defence to attack - players that don't want the ball under duress and don't pass it well when they are not.
As I said yesterday (and again in my reply to you above) there were options, like Lo Celso, that could have helped this, helped the midfield out.
What Mourinho did do better yesterday immediately was simplify the format, simplify the instructions and remits players were given within that (which I alluded to in my post yesterday - and he mentions around 6 min into ArtyB's vid on page 115). I also liked the vid above where we see Mourinho's more tactically pragmatic (but smarter for our players) one FB pushed up not both approach, with the quick Sanchez on the right side where Aurier (also quicker and more energetic than Davies the other side) was pushed up more often. Immediately we are seeing a coach with a better tactical intuition, better marrying personnel to a tactical format and tactical application.