Aston Villa....Good?!
It's November already and quite surprisingly Aston Villa aren't relinquishing in a midtable spot which the board were seemingly quite happy with as a target for this year. Bouchard has added neumerous players to his side including the extremly equipt midfielder Simon Davies in from Spurs, Ruud Van Nistelrooy also joined from White Hart Lane for an absolute bargain price, Jefferson the Brazilian no.1 signed also, and the pick of the bunch must be Djibril Cisse on a free from Liverpool. These signings have offered depth to the squad, and some real attacking forces to give the club that edge for the whole season. So far, it's going very much to plan for the Villans, but with games in the Premiership being played everyday of the week almost, it's surely not going to stay like that....is it?
Premier League Match 1 Aston Villa [4]: Zonneveld(PEN), Cisse(2), Bierofka
Fulham [0]:
Mo was upbeat before the game, possibly banking on another 7th minute exit and another slightly easlier win, but it wasn't to be, and things didn't pan out the way the Fulham man wanted. To be honest, his team were outclassed on the day completly forcing the new man in goal Jefferson to find something else to do for the day. After Zonneveld was brought down in the box it was he who picked himself up and slotted home for his first for the club. Cisse was put through twice, either side of half time and duly knocked them both home setting himself up for a debut hat trick. Although he didn't bag his third, he did whitnes one of the best individual goals that English football has ever seen. Jefferson took a second out from his chess game with a steward to throw the ball out to Gary Neville. Neville then passed it forward to Bierofka - 2 minutes after entering the fray - who was just beyond the half way line on the right hand side of the field. Bierofka then set his sights on goal, took the ball around neumerous Fulham players, traveling in a zig zag pattern across the pitch leaving devistating prints on the pitch which the groundsman surely will not be happy about. This perculiar pattern finished after Bierofka took the ball sideways, span around the centre half and blasted it past the keeper to the back of the net. Simply Sublime.
The goal was surly to be considered for effort of the season, an extremly good goal, hopefully it'll earn this man a trophy because it was just, phhh, unbelievable.
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Daniel Bierofka
Well, I picked up the ball from Gary and just thought, i'll get a goal here. And....i did. In the process i thought i'd write a little message to the boss, hence the treck across the pitch, leaving lots of marks on the picth. If you look closer at the pattern, it's in the form of a Z with a sideways P at the top, which when translated into German, i love you boss. He's the best boss i've ever had, and i know we'll win things this year.
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Premier League Match 2 Everton [2]: Kallstom, Semler
Aston Villa [1]: van Nistelrooy
Niall Murphy can count himself quite lucky to have picked up all three points at Goodison Park, after their opponents Aston Villa pushed throughout the whole 90 minuts with plenty of free flowing attacking football. The attacking play just couldn't find a finish and without Everton's keeper' being on form i'm sure the away side would have gotten at least a point, if not more from the game.
A superb free kick from Kallstom and a good goal from Semler in the opening half hour took the wind out of the sails of Villa, and it took a Ruud Van Nistelrooy drive from the edge of the box to beat the keeper.
Dispite recording the first loss of the new season, the team can take a lot from the result and count themselves quite unlucky.
Premier League Match 3 Aston Villa [0]: Man City [0]:
Attack...Good Save Robert Green........Attack...Good Save Robert Green........Attack...Good Save Robert Green....
Premier League Match 4 Sheff Wed [1]: Earnshaw
Aston Villa [3]: Bierofka, Rubirosa, Cisse
With Sheffield Wednesday relinqushing at the bottom of the Premier League, a rather easy game was in prospect for the away side at Hillsbrough. Unfortunatly events didn't pan out as such with Wednesday putting up a fight at the back preventing the attacking line of Villa for much of the game. Another run across the field from Bierofka resulted in a goal whist Rubirosa and Cisse nicked tap-ins later on in the game. Wednesday's consolation goal came at the end of the game after a 'Route One' attack gave Earnshaw the oppertunity to score, and he duly did.
Premier League Match 5 QPR [1]: Nemeth
Aston Villa [3]: Suazo, Bierofka, Cisse
Yes....same score as the previous match....however quite a different game. As Niall Murphy found out last season, QPR are a good side and have what it takes to pull of surprising victory's against big sides, so when Nemeth headed home a corner on 9 minutes...things looked...ominous to say the least!
The score stayed the same throughout the first half, and we had to wait until the 48th minute for the reply. After that goal QPR looked wounded, and Villa just kept piling on the pressure. Late on two more goals from Bierofka and Cisse secured the win.
Premier League Match 6 Aston Villa [1]: van Nistelrooy
Arsenal [1]: Chevanton
Arsenal scored early on whilst Villa managed to net one late on, so going on that you'd think that the home side were lucky to get the win, but you'd be wrong.
Aston Villa had the vast majority of possession and although couldn't pick up the win, fully deserved to. Could this be an early omen against sides, playing so well yet achieving so little??
League Cup 2nd Round Aston Villa [2]: van Nistelrooy, Nolan
Blackpool [0]:
A new look Aston Villa side were given the oppertunity to show off the squad's depth and that it did playing very well, keeping a clean sheet and scoring two goals. The 'second string' have been performing very well in the reserve league and some have gained themselves another oppertunity to shine in the future through playing this fixture. With hard fixtures a piling up, no doubt these players will be used again in the near future.
Premier League Match 7 West Brom [1]: Vargas
Aston Villa [5]: Suazo, Cisse, Bierofka, van Nistelrooy Vorisek
As Cisse's shot hit the back of the net in the 7th miute, West Brom boss Chris Morris left the dugout and his job at the club! Sensational! He just got up and left as Cisse celebrated near the corner flag, and walked out....
The scoreline got worse for Brom', as Bierofka added a third just before the break. Assistants for Morris stepped in at half time to give ome form of team talk, and it looked to have done something as Vargas scored just after the hour mark, but the joy was shortlived as substitute Ruud van Nistelrooy buired one home 5 minutes later. After Lampard had a goal disalowed, Vorisek smashed one home from the edge of the box to finish the riot at 5-1.
It's been 14 years since Aston Villa won a trophy, the League Cup in 1996, and since Bouchard has been at the club they've made one final appearance and have stepped up their aim in the league to a whole other level. Surely the Villans can't last long in the title race with so many teams putting on top quality performances everyweek? Portsmouth next could well make or break Villa as the table begins to break up ever so slowly.
Premier League Match 8 Aston Villa [3]: Cisse, Suazo(2)
Portsmouth [1]: Villa
A simply sublime goal from Villa on 4 minutes recieved a standing ovation from the whole crowd. It must've been one of the best goals ever to hit the back of the net at Villa Park, if not one of the best in the Premiership that has ever been scored.
After a couple of minutes the Portsmouth manager Andy Nilsen sat down and stopped jumping about, then....as if the gods were shining on his opposite number, a bird dropped his load on Nilsen's sparkling new suit. Nilsen was taken a back by the dolop, yet the fun wansn't over yet as the ball flew out of the sky and hit the man on the head. Nilsen was on the floor...covered in sh*te....ahhhh fun
. Whilst Nilsen was cleaning himself up, Cisse smacked the ball home to bring the game level at 1-1.
The second half brought two goals.....the first being Suazo's 49th's league goal for Aston Villa, and the second being Suazo's 50th! Bierofka was brough off with 15 minutes to go and was awarded with a standing ovation from the crowd, bigger than Villa's, for his part in the game today.
Bouchard was chuffed with his team's performance against the current Premiership Champions, looking very pleased with the result, proving the egg was well and truly on Goat's face....and the sh*te likewise on his jacket.
Premier League Match 9 Newcastle United [2]: Vucink(2)
Aston Villa [2]: Cisse(2)
Dissapointing would sum up today's game. Newcastle had only scored 3 all season before this game, and i've got to say iot's dissapointing to have conceded two in one game. Two late goals for Vucink killed off the Villa charge, and although i'd like to give credit to Mark for his team's performance, i can't...because he left after 20 minutes....ahh well!
Premier League Match 10 Aston Villa [1]: Davies
Blackburn [0]:
Simon Davies bagged his first goal for the club in a hard faught battle with Rovers. Leo Hardy didn't travel to Villa Park and it's just as well as his team went down 1-0. Simple as....another win
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