It's the Ash and Gab show at Villa

They regularly illuminate Villa Park – and now Gabby Agbonlahor and Ashley Young have been revealed as the ones who light up the Villa dressing room.

The England pair inspired Villa to an impressive 4-2 victory over Bolton on Saturday, man-of-the-match Agbonlahor netting twice to reach double figures for the campaign before setting up winger Young for a fourth late on.

And Villa defender Curtis Davies admits the pair are just as capable of making a joke of their Villa team-mates as they are opposition defenders.

"There is plenty of banter at the training ground. We are young, so we are not the types to just come in and go home quietly," said Davies.

"Ash and Gab are chirpy, but that is because they are confident. I would rather they were bubbly than heads down moaning about training.

"That keeps their confidence going because they are training well and taking it into games.

"They do play a few joke. They do stuff we did as YTS's and should have grown out of! Sometimes people have to run screaming through the changing room because it turns into a war sometimes."

Villa boss Martin O'Neill last week compared Young to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, while hailing Agbonlahor as "absolutely sensational."

And he has warned the pair, who are 23 and 22 respectively, will only get better.

"I just think the two of them are absolutely at the top of the game at the moment, but there's more to come," said O'Neill."They love playing and I think you can see that. They're exhilarating."

Davies revealed O'Neill's Messi comments are sure to be the next source of dressing-room banter – but he admits Young is for Villa what the Argentinian is for Barcelona.

"Ash and Gabby are like every defender's worst nightmare, especially at the moment, they are both so confident," added the centre-back.

"I haven't heard of Ash being compared to Messi but that one will come up in the dressing room, don't worry about that."