We can't say United parked the bus and also claim that they didn't play because of our midfield. United hardly tried to play at all.
A clear and very visible problem today was linking defence and attack. United kept us in our own half for way too long, because our midfielders seemed incapable of taking some sort of initiative. Henderson kept passing it back to our centre-backs and Can/Wijnaldum showed no movement whatsoever.
There is not much to discuss when we have 3 all-rounders who don't excel at anything and are way too similar to each other starting for us. Absolutely no creativity, flair, courage. I hate these 'modern' centre-mids.
And I know 'mentality' is something vague and too subjective but I sense that especially Gini and Jordan are just weak. They're afraid, they hide and they're not at all the players to grab a game by the scruff of the neck and turn things around. We are team of softies, and our captain summarises this.