Villa won his second successive man-of-the-match award on Saturday after following up his hat-trick in Tuesday's 4-1 win over Russia with an injury-time winner against Sweden in the battle of the two Group D leaders.

The Valencia striker is now favourite to finish as the competition's top scorer - only Ole Madsen in 1964 and Michel Platini in 1984 have scored more than five goals in a finals tournament - but the 26-year-old insists that is secondary to team success with Spain.

"Let's hope I can carry on scoring so the team keep on adding points, and we carry on doing the same things," said Villa.

"The main thing is to be a group and my only intention is to help the team do well. The most important thing is the three points, more so than having two personal trophies," added the striker, who nevertheless admits it has been a memorable week for him.

"I won't be able to forget this day, or any of these last few days. It was difficult to play two games like this, but the main thing is that the team had two great matches."

Villa's determination to help Spain win their first European Championship title since 1964 is clear for all to see, but that is not the only thing dominating the striker's thoughts at the minute.

Neither is it the speculation about where he will be playing his club football next term, but instead it is actually the final weekend of the Spanish Segunda Division season where Villa's local club, Sporting Gijon, are looking to win promotion.

Sporting, who gave Villa his big break, are currently in the third and final promotion spot ahead of their home match with Eibar on Sunday evening, level on 69 points with second-placed Malaga and two ahead of Real Sociedad in fourth.

"I will suffer more tomorrow (Sunday) than today," said the Asturian-born Villa with regards to Sporting's promotion bid.

"I hope I won't have to suffer too much though and that it will be a great day for all the people from Asturias and all those from Sporting, because it is something we would really like to have."

Spain's win helped them secure a quarter-final berth as Group D winners, but the result means Sweden now face a crucial winner-takes-all showdown with Russia on Wednesday, with both countries on three points.

Sweden coach Lars Lagerback was proud of his side's display in Innsbruck, but also bemoaned what he felt was some poor decision-making by Dutch referee Pieter Vink - not least at the end of the game where the official refused to blow for an apparent foul on Markus Rosenberg and Spain raced up the other end to score their winner.

Lagerback said: "Obviously this is a bitter way of losing the match, in the very final seconds, and particularly bitter in the sense that I'm standing 20 metres away from a foul against Markus Rosenberg, and then the break on a counter-attack.

"It makes you wonder about all the talk about fair play. Something should be done about mass confrontations towards the referee and if you can't call what Spain did at the end of the first half a mass confrontation then what can you call it?

"As well as that, their coach was on at the referee in the player's tunnel afterwards."

When asked if he thought Spain were influencing the decisions of the referee, Lagerback added: "That's difficult to say, you need to tread very carefully in these situations.

"We are particularly disappointed when you look at the situation preceding their final goal, but we do have the feeling that everything was against us with free-kicks, etc, in the second half.

"There were four or five instances where Rosenberg was fouled from behind but without anything being done.

"But regardless of the result of this match we feel that we have our destiny in our hands, and we feel we have a good chance of progressing further," added Lagerback.

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