Aston Villa broke a huge blow to the Battle for Champions League qualification, in which Newcastle United was hit 4-1 to draw in two points of them in the Premier League table.
The hosts thoroughly earned their victory in Villa Park, where they led within 33 seconds.
The low strike of Ollie Watkins has deflected Fabian Schar to Nick Pope, and the Villa striker could have had a perfect hat trick for the break.
However, he rattled the woodwork twice with a powerful left shot and again with a ball head with those opportunities on either side of Schar's head equalizer.
Villa, however, continued to bear the greater threat, and they clearly pulled after Watkins Teed Ian Maatsen was on for his first Premier League goal after the interval.
Then Burn changed when Jacob Ramsey's low cross in his own network, because the replacements of Unai Emery further tilted a one -sided affair, and Amadou Onana made the points safe with a rasaging finish with 15 minutes to play.
With Chelsea only on Sunday in action and Nottingham Forest who visited Tottenham a day later, Villa climbed to the sixth in the Premier League table with 57 points.
They stand only behind the fifth forest placed on a target difference, with Newcastle-Die again led by Jason Tindall in the absence of Eddie Howe-stay third with 59.
6 – Aston Villa has won six consecutive home games in all competitions, each while they score at least twice. It is their longest series of home winning while scoring 2+ since January 1990 (11). Super. pic.twitter.com/zzrojedsme
– Optajoe (@Optajoe) April 19, 2025
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Villa has been in brilliant form for their own fans lately and won six straight home competitions in all competitions, while they score at least twice in each of those competitions.
It is their longest series of home gains while scoring multiple goals on every occasion since January 1990 (11), while they have also won five consecutive league games in general.
They were led by a talismic version of Watkins, while he replaced Marcus Rashford at the tip of the villa attack.
Watkins has now scored 74 Premier League goals for Villa-de Joint of each player for them in the competition, alongside Gabriel Agbonlaor.
And since the beginning of last season, Watkins has scored and helped in eight Premier League matches, with only Mohamed Salah on more occasions (15).
A big, big win for Aston Villa in the race to achieve a top five finish and a place in the UEFA Champions League next season.
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– Opta Analyst (@Optaanalyst) April 19, 2025
Newcastle has since admitted four or more goals in four different Premier League matches this campaign. Only the current bottom three of Ipswich Town (Acht), Leicester City and Southampton (five each) have done this more often.