article_snippet.sent: Christian Benteke heads Aston Villa into the lead against Tottenham in the 35th minute of the game .
article_snippet.sent: Christian Benteke celebrates the goal that gave Tim Sherwood's team the advantage at the end of the first half .
article_snippet.sent: Christian Benteke continued Christian Benteke fine form for Aston Villa from Tuesday, where Christian Benteke scored a hat-trick in the 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers .
article_snippet.sent: Christian Benteke is mobbed by Christian Benteke Villa team-mates after scoring the opening goal against Tottenham .
article_snippet.sent: Christian Benteke points to the sky as Christian Benteke led the Aston Villa attack against Tottenham in the Premier League .
article_snippet.sent: Sportsmail's Match Zone shows the pattern of play which led to Benteke's goal .
article_snippet.sent: Federico Fazio, alongside Eric Dier in central defence, was handed the unenviable task of taming Christian Benteke after Jan Vertonghen missed out through illness.
article_snippet.sent: By the final whistle Federico Fazio was probably wishing Jan Vertonghen had taken a shot of something to cure illness as the brilliant Benteke fired Villa to victory.
article_snippet.sent: That was as good as it got for Tottenham, though, as Benteke’s influence grew.
article_snippet.sent: Sherwood has shown once again that Christian Benteke knows how to get a striker scoring.
article_snippet.sent: Benteke, who fronted a three-pronged attack, scored the winner before the manager set the manager side up perfectly to deal with the second-half Spurs fightback, although it never seemed to come.
article_snippet.sent: Villa striker Benteke shoots at goal in an attempt to score he second goal of the game against Tottenham .
article_snippet.sent: If Villa preserve their top-flight status their will owe Villa preserve their top-flight status to Benteke.
article_snippet.sent: After he sloppily conceded possession around 10 yards outside he area, the ball eventually fell to Bacuna, from whose cross Benteke out-jumped Fazio and directed he header past Vorm.
article_snippet.sent: Not for the first time, a long pass found Benteke, whose header released Agbonlahor, who cut inside Dier before watching Dier low drive from the edge of his area hit the post.
article_snippet.sent: But if Christian Benteke was Villa’s first-half hero, their central-defensive partnership of Ron Vlaar and Nathan Baker took the honours after the break as Sherwood’s men soaked up the pressure.
highlights_snippet.sent: Christian Benteke headed Aston Villa into the lead in the 35th minute against Tottenham at White Hart Lane .
  