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Christian Benteke (AFP)
Christian Benteke (AFP)

Birmingham - Christian Benteke's penalty in time added on has ended a run of seven successive defeats for Aston Villa as they emerged 2-1 winners over West Brom in their Premier League clash on Tuesday.

Benteke -- who also scored the winner from the penalty spot in the corresponding fixture last term though that was a seven goal thriller -- restored the hosts one goal advantage after Saido Berahino had levelled for the visitors following Gabriel Agbonlahor's early strike.

Villa's win -- their first in 13 league matches -- is their first since beating bottom side Leicester three months ago and sees them climb out of the bottom three with a three point advantage over QPR and Burnley.

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