Bouchard....A God?
After leading Aston Villa to 5th in the Premier League and only a mear handful of points behind the Champions League spots, many are starting to believe that Sam Bouchard is a miracle worker! Surely a team that finished 14th the season before this couldn't pull out a top 4 performance this term.....or could they? With the goals flying in and the clean sheets appearing aplenty it looks as if Bouchard's hard work is finally paying off, and the Aston Villa faithful are bloody loving it. We asked a few fans how they felt about their manager and this was their response.
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Results art bes we've had int yurrrs. It's jusst loovelyy
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Yao knaw thingges art gaoing youuuurr way fiiiinallly when yao arrr connfident o winnin at oold traaford
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Ai think tha ii'd marrrie Samwell if i wasnt alredy marrid to me sista, not that i'm guay, i jus lov im. Beaoootiful
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We did try to get English out of the Aston Villa fans but they weren't able to comply saying
"we arrr" each time of asking.
Premier League Game 11 Bolton [1]: Kringe
Aston Villa [2]: Baker, Nolan
After a rather tough schedule over the past few weeks, Bouchard decided to leave out many of his regular 11 for this game against Bolton. In came Baker and Nolan in the midfield inplace of Vorisek and Lampard, and upfront Cisse, ruled out with an injury, and van Nistelrooy were replaced by Suazo and the never present Sam Parkin. Parkin watched Baker nessle a free kick into the back of the net early on in the game, before playing a pivital part in the second - playing a chipped ball through to Nolan for him to finish the game off.
League Cup 4th Round Hartlepool [0]: Aston Villa [5]: van Nistelrooy(3), Nolan(2)
Utter Domination from the word go. Simple as! Van Nistelrooy got his hattrick within half an hour whilst Nolan easily slotted home two in the second half to put Villa through to the 5th round away to Southampton.
Premier League Game 12 Aston Villa [1]: Vorisek
Liverpool [2]: Holm(2)
The man who Sam Bouchard first brought to the Premiership did his old manager no favours this afternoon by knocking two past Aston Villa either side of half time. Vorisek sneaked one in at the back post mid way through the second half but Liverpool seemed content to hang on to the ball rather than attack. A very difficult game today, making this only the second defeat in 14 games for Villa this season.
Premier League Game 13 Man Utd [0]: Aston Villa [0]:
Usually Old Trafford is quite a scary place to visit, and there aren't many teams that can walk away with pride let alone points, yet Aston Villa managed to do both! Rick Boult has really pushed on from the start of the season, making some really good looking signings and forming quite an unbeatable side, that of which can score for fun if they really turn it on, however today wasn't the case. After scoring 11 against Middlesborough the other week the arrogant United boss told his team to run the show and destroy. They couldn't. Rick must surely be devistated, however his team roll on in the league, and must not be lookin' forward to a trip to Villa Park later on in the season.
League Cup 5th Round Southampton [0]: Aston Villa [0]:
Quite a boring match if i'm honest. About 3 pieces of attacking play throughout the whole game and both teams just looked shattered after a grueling start to the season. The game eventually went to Penalties where Bierofka scored the winner after Southampton missed, to give Villa the spot in the quater finals!
Premier League Game 14 Chelsea [1]: Cassano
Aston Villa [1]: van Nistelrooy
For the umpteenth time already this season, Aston Villa are playing away from home and once again they face tough opposition. Danny King's world beaters looked as if they could have had the win early on and after Cassano scored many would've put money on them to go on and win the game. This wasn't to be, as Bouchard's Villa once again faught their way back into the game and claimed their deserved point late on. A slightly battered Chelsea felt the wrath of a set of hard tackles which surely hasnt' helped their injury crisis at the minute.
League Cup Quater Final Portsmouth [2]: Korzym, Yankov
Aston Villa [3]: Davies(2), Baker
The Aston Villa roadshow continued to stride on today as they reached their first Semi-Final of the season at the expense of Andy Nilsen's Portsmouth. Villa's only first half attack ended up giving them the lead dead on half time as Simon Davies netted his second goal this season. A livid Nilsen dragged his team in at half time among a chorus of boo's from the home crowd and gave them a right earfull. It looked as if it may have worked as Korzym scored moments after rejoining the game for the second half. That was short lived as Baker curled one home on 58 minutes to the amazement of the Pompey boss. Yankov scored late on to take the game to extra time but Portsmouth didn't look like a side that could handle it, well, their goalkeeper didn't anyway! It was only a matter of time before someone hit the back of the Pompey net once more, and Simon Davies was the man that did it. Game, Set and Match to Aston Villa.
Premier League Game 15 Aston Villa [4]: Nolan, Suazo(2), Taylor
Tottenham [0]:
The first Aston Villa home game in over a month proved well worth the wait as David Pagi once again tried to conquer....and failed

. The man marking system employed by Spurs failed miserably and i expect Vincent Kompany will be recieving many a lashing for his poor performance.
Teh Band wagen rawls own....or the band wagon rolls on in English