I can try and justify it, I thought we deserved a point at least.
In second half Boggy missed a sitter and there were a couple of really good crosses knocked in which they defended very well, just cleared for corners.
Think about it. Watford's goal came from them getting around the back of a static Nosworthy and crossing a ball in from the by line which could not be knocked away for a corner - more likely a touch from the defender would have resultied in an OG - so the striker only needed to get a touch to finish.
Contrast that with the crosses that the Blades put in. All diagonal from just about level with the edge of the penalty area. The Quinn stretch and miss, the Bogdanovic non-header were both from crosses that were delivered too early - that's because we panic or do not have a winger who can get to the line and put in a telling cross. Diagonal crosses are far less of a problem for defenders to deal with and consequently they can knock them out for a corner or out to their midfielders to counter attack.
The corner count means absolutely nothing if a) you cannot deliver a good corner, or b) there is no one in the centre with sufficient bottle or determination or skill to get their head on the end of it. Many of the corners we seem to take are looped in so they are easy for defenders. They should be whipped in with pace so a flick or a glance can deflect them goalward and create big problems for the keeper to deal with. They need to be varied - some near post, some penalty spot, some far but they need to clear the first man.
I am still not convinced that we are putting any balls of quality into the danger areas and couple that with the lone striker. isolated without support, that is the root of our pathetic goals for column.
Holloway has his Blackpool players getting to the line, driving through the opposition, switching play from one side to the other with a sweeping move and getting a lot of oppotunities to threaten the goal. Our tactics involve us pissing about with the ball in our own half and letting the opposition re-group before we try to break down two solid banks of four and end up lobbing a hopeful one into the middle. That's because the whole ethos is around negating the opposition and not working to the strengths, albeit limited, of our own players - especially at home.
