Harvey Barnes has admitted his Leicester City teammates were out for revenge after they thrashed Aston Villa in front of the Sky cameras.

The former West Brom loanee netted a brace as the Foxes thumped Villa 4-0 on Monday night, to strengthen their top-four hopes.

Villa's defeat at the King Power came only weeks after they dumped their Midlands rivals out of the Carabao Cup in dramatic fashion.

Dean Smith's men weathered a storm across the two legs, before Trezeguet scored an injury time winner to send Villa to Wembley.

And Barnes has told LeicestershireLive that those results gave them added incentive to get a result this time around.

It was a big match in more than one way," Barnes said.

The last time we played them in the cup, we were gutted at how that went.

We wanted to get revenge for how the cup games went. It was a motivation point for us. We were all so disappointed. I think that was probably one of the lowest points of the season so far.

So it was going to be a big game and we knew that. It was a bit of a local derby as well.

Plus, we were going in on the back of a few poor results as well. We knew we needed to get that first win under our belts again.

So for us to bounce back the way we did was great. We knew we owed them one and that showed in our performance.

Barnes opened the scoring in bizarre fashion with Pepe Reina flying out of his goal only to miss the ball and man completely. The winger would then go on to calmly stroke the ball past the helpless Tyrone Mings.

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On the goal, he said: It was about staying composed and hitting the target and obviously it found the net really well.

When you see the keeper coming out like that a lot of the time you want to try and lob him. But the way he came out I saw an opportunity to take it round him instead.

I was thinking: Dont clatter me here! But I thought I was always getting there first because there was a great weight on the ball from Marc [Albrighton]. I knew if I made that run Marc has that ball in him to just hit it down the line with great weight on it. As soon as I got it past the keeper it was a pretty open goal.

Then it was down to keeping my composure.

I found the right finish its always difficult for a defender running back to his own goal because hes got to sort his feet out. It was about getting power on the ball and hitting the target I dont think you can be too accurate in those circumstances. I hit the target and its crept in.

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'Owed them one' - West Brom favourite reveals added Aston Villa motivation - Birmingham Live