Attack best form of defence

There seems to be lots of emphasis on defensive mistakes after our bad results recently quite understandably but our inability to retain possession is causing unnecessary pressure on the defence.

Last night for example the amount of attempted crosses or even shots that hit their defenders when these weren't the best options was embarassing and the result was allowing the opportunity to the opposition to launch a counter attack.

The game has changed to possession based football but our game plan of getting it wide and putting a cross in hasn't, we really need a couple of better technical players behind the striker or wide that can play this way. I''m sure the result would then be better chances being created and less defending to do and perhaps our current defenders would then be ok?