tim sherwood has expressed his relief at aston villa's crucial victory against west brom and claims the three points are so important, that he'd rather them than his wife win the euro millions jackpot christian benteke's last minute penalty earned the former tottenham boss his first win in charge as villa climbed out of the premier league relegation places during the game, sherwood was a bundle of energy on the touchline but could hardly bear to watch as his belgian striker kept his cool to slot the ball past ben foster video tim sherwood: told the wife i'd take three points over lottery jackpot  sherwood appeals to the referee after matt lowton was brought down by ben foster in stoppage time  the aston villa boss looks to the heavens as his side pressed for a winner against west brom at villa park  sherwood celebrate with his staff after christian benteke's penalty sealed a vital victory for his strugglers  sherwood went through an emotional rollercoaster and held his pulse to the aston villa fans  'it's incredible, a fantastic feeling to win my wife said she did the euro millions and gets £54million if she wins i said i'd rather take three points and i genuinely mean that,' he said on bt sport 'it's brilliant to win because in the first games we were not that fantastic, but we were vastly improved today we need to improve but we are making ground i think it's important the guys spark the crowd we did that early by pressing off the ball 'we mixed the game up at times by going long and short and we gave fans something to cheer about this is a big club at the wrong end of the division' sherwood says he'd rather take the three points then his wife win the euro millions jackpot  the 2 1 result also ended a seven game losing run for villa and lifted them out of the barclays premier league relegation zone sherwood felt his pulse and gestured to the villa fans as he walked off and believes the strugglers are fighting again 'i was saying we're alive there were people who wrote us off but we're alive and kicking people will look at that result but the performance was great,' he said, with villa three points clear of the drop zone it was a tense affair throughout the 90 minutes and sherwood appeared to show every kind of emotion  benteke scored in the league for the first time since december and sherwood admitted the striker had told him exactly what he would do with a penalty he said: 'goalscorers are there to be shot down and it takes a brave man to stand up there i asked him before the game if he gets a penalty what he was going to do 'he said 'i'll wait until the goalie goes down and i'll roll it in the corner' i was still peeping through my fingers' gabby agbonlahor opened the scoring and had two cleared off the line, while also having a penalty claim ignored after he beat foster to the ball gabby agbonlahor (centre) slides home villa's opener in the first half to give them the lead at villa park  the striker's goal drought came to an end following his strike as he tormented the west brom backline  saido berahino had equalised in the second half before the late drama which left albion 13th in the table but baggies boss tony pulis defended keeper foster after his gaffe cost them a point pulis said: 'i haven't seen it but ben should catch it anyway he has been fantastic for us all season, he has won us games and he has had an off night, but there'll be no one here who will criticise him saido berahino (centre) runs off in celebration after equalising for the away side in the second half  tony pulis defended foster after he brought down the villa full back to give them the match winning penalty  christian benteke (centre left) slots home the last gasp penalty to hand villa a crucial win against west brom  'i don't have to speak him, he knows we'll dust ourselves off and get going on thursday' pulis also played down alan hutton's challenge on berahino which saw the pair square up to each other late in the game he said: 'i haven't seen the hutton challenge there has been a lot of criticism thrown at referees recently but i'm not going to go there i'll let other people decide what they thought about it 'the most important thing was villa were better than us in the first half they were quicker, kept the ball better and we wanted half time the second half was a different game' the west brom boss also played down alan hutton's challenge on saido berahino in the second half 
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tim sherwood professed he was happier with aston villa's three points against west brom than he would be if his wife wins the lottery jackpot  christian benteke scored an injury time penalty to hand villa the win  the 2 1 result ended a seven game losing run for sherwood's new side  tony pulis defended goalkeeper ben foster after his error lost the game  click here for all the latest aston villa news 