Littlewoods Cup (Second Round, First Leg)- Wednesday 20 September 1989 at Villa Park (Att 27,414)

Aston Villa (1) 2 (Platt 15, Gray 63): Spink, Price, Gallagher, Gage, Mountfield, McGrath, Platt, Heath (Nielson 75), Olney, Gray, Callaghan; Sub Ormondroyd.
Wolves (0) 1 (Mutch 47): Kendall, Bellamy, Venus, Streete, Clarke, Vaughan (Downing 81), Bennett, Gooding, Bull (Paskin 73), Mutch, Dennison.

Referee: Mr T Mills (Rotherham).
Order of Goals: a,W,a.