It was the balance of the side that was wrong. A back 5 and 2 holding midfielders leaving only 3 attacking players at home against Watford. Had Sissoko not played and say a more attacking player played he would have been ok just making short safe passes but we posed no risk to the Watford goal and the team that finished the match was far better placed to do so. I blame the set up more than the individual players for the toothless first half.
The least you can expect when you play 5 defenders is that they defend a basic cross, the first cross of the game. If our idiot defenders had done their jobs perhaps it would have left more space for us to play and not made the game so easy for Watford. This habit we now have of conceding in the first 10 minutes makes it so much harder for our limp attack to create chances.