Fixing possession problems a tougher job mid-season, says Still

Ed Still knows Watford need to do better when they have more possession of the ball, stating that fixing those issues is particularly challenging mid-season.

The Hornets had 66% of the ball during their 1-1 draw with Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday but increasingly struggled to do anything with it, creating little in the second half prior to Vivaldo Semedo's late equaliser.

Lack of composure and ideas saw fragile Watford fall into Sheff Wed's trap

Still points to missed chances and second-half mistakes

Still is not blind to the problem, claiming that the way his side gave away counter-attacking opportunities to Wednesday was key in losing control of the game after the break.

The head coach said: "What we don't want to be doing is giving away transitions.

"It's the first of our games where we've come up against an opposition who's given us that much possession, so it's a totally different challenge and dynamic.

"It's something we've got to improve on and we want to improve on as we go forward, controlling both types of games – where we do have the ball and where we're going to set up in a more conservative way.

"It's a work in progress."

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Watford had just six shots and created an xG of 0.21 prior to the attack that saw Semedo bundle in a 90th-minute leveller, seemingly lacking composure and ideas in their final-third play.

The head coach suggested that coming in without a pre-season means we are yet to see what his Watford side could be all about.

Still said: "There's work to do, definitely, we know that.

"It's one of the challenges of coming in mid-season. You're trying to make best use of the profiles you've got and we know all the injuries we have, it's changed a few things.

"The way we've planned on playing isn't there now so we've got to be flexible with that and be able to play these games in a controlled way, with the control we've shown in games where we've maybe sat off teams a little bit more.

"As I say, it really is a work in progress but we haven't got much time to do it.

"We need to learn as a team how to keep control in possession and how not to be passing backwards but to still have forward passes when you come up against that type of defensive block."