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BLACKBURN, England -- Ashley Young inspired Aston Villa to their fourth consecutive victory and left them within touching distance of the Barclays Premier League's top four with a sparkling 4-0 win at Blackburn.
Carew is surrounded by happy teammates after heading the first of Aston Villa's four goals.
Martin O'Neill's Villa stand just one point behind Chelsea and few would dare bet against them challenging for a Champions League place on the evidence of their rout of 10-man Rovers.
John Carew headed Villa's opener against the run of play in the 29th minute when Young picked himself up after being fouled by David Dunn to deliver the perfect set piece.
From that moment on Villa were in command and when Ryan Nelsen was sent off in the 53rd minute there was only going to be one winner.
Nelsen hauled down Young in the box and Gareth Barry swept home the resulting spot-kick before late goals from Young and late substitute Marlon Harewood completed victory.
It was easy to forget Rovers had dominated the first half hour only to be denied by a mixture of poor finishing and fine saves from Scott Carson before Carew struck.
Young sealed Villa's victory 10 minutes from time with a superb finish after getting onto the end of Agbonlahor's cut-back to the edge of the box.
And to round off a thoroughly impressive evening Harewood grabbed the fourth in the final minute after Carew's shot was parried. E-mail to a friend 
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