Alan Hutton shocked everyone by grabbing Villa's winner in 2-1 victory

Kasper Schmeichel kept Leicester in this one for large parts of the match

Aston Villa rise to 11th in the Premier League after a come-from-behind win at home against Leicester City. Alex Johnson writes up the game.

Villa came into the game on the back of a four-game unbeaten run and extended that good form with a thoroughly deserved win at home over a poor Leicester side, who remain rock-bottom of the Premier League.

Christian Benteke had the first good chance of the game for Villa when his angled half volley from the edge of the penalty area drifted only narrowly wide of the far post. The hosts were causing Leicester problems with their pacey attack, but went behind against the run of play after 13 minutes.

On a rare foray forward for the Foxes, Riyad Mahrez cut in from the right wing and hit a low shot that was pretty weak but took a deflection that deceived Brad Guzan. The keeper failed to gather the ball in and Leonardo Ulloa was on hand to take advantage of the mistake to tap in from close range.

Villa responded well to going behind and were level only four minutes later. Ashley Westwood curled a lovely free-kick into the middle of the Leicester box and Ciaran Clark was unmarked to stoop low and direct a header into the corner of the net.

It was the hosts who controlled the rest of the first half and had Leicester pinned back for long periods. However, despite looking dangerous down the flanks, they failed to create any good openings and the half ended on a sour note for them as Westwood was taken off injured after a nasty tackle from Jamie Vardy and had to be replaced by Kieran Richardson.

Villa continued to dominate proceedings at the start of the second half and were thwarted on numerous occasions by Kasper Schmeichel, who single-handedly kept Leicester in the game for long periods.

Firstly, he did well to dive at the feet of Richardson to block a shot after neat wing-play by Gabriel Agbonlahor before pulling off an even better save to deny Benteke after the Belgian striker had been sent clear through on goal.

The Leicester keeper then denied Agbonlahor as he continued to thwart Villa, before Leicester almost sneaked an unlikely goal when David Nugent hit a dipping half volley from 25 yards that looked to be heading in until Guzan kept it out with a strong palm.

Villa took the lead on 71 minutes when Hutton scored his first goal for the club. Lots of credit has to go to Agbonlahor, who carried the ball forward 50 yards before knocking it inside to Benteke. The striker spotted the run of Hutton, who was in acres of space in the Leicester box, and the Scot controlled the ball before drilling it past Schmeichel.

Schmeichel was then at it again as he first denied Benteke with a point-blank save from a header, before getting down low to keep out another header from the resulting corner.

Any hopes Leicester had of getting back level took a blow when Paul Konchesky was shown a red card on 79 minutes. The defender was late on Hutton and then the two squared up forehead-to-forehead. The Villa man got a yellow, while Konchesky was shown red - possibly for both the ugly challenge and confrontation combined.

Leicester chased the game as the clock ticked down, but couldn't create a real golden chance. The closest they came was when Chris Wood shot wide from 20 yards out, but it was never really troubling Guzan. Leicester remain bottom of the table and the pressure continues to mount on Nigel Pearson.