Swansea boss Carlos Carvalhal could do without FA Cup replay with Wolves

The Swans, bottom of the table and four points from safety, drew 0-0 against the Championship leaders at Molineux and face a third-round replay on January 16.

While Carvalhal felt his side's performance represented another step forward, the Portuguese insisted he needs time to work with his players on the training pitch.

"More games? It's not welcome but it's the reality," he said. "It's not our main competition. Of course we are more interested to stay in the Premier League.

" I don't wish to play more games - we need training. I think we progressed again and you will see more progress as now I have a full week to prepare for the next match.

"There was progress in the clean sheet. We played with better quality in parts of the game and I see the team is moving forward."

Swansea's next game is a trip to St James' Park to play Newcastle and Carvalhal is hopeful Renato Sanches will be fit for the Premier League clash.

The Portugal midfielder, on loan from Bayern Munich, limped off after just 34 minutes against Wolves with what looked like a hamstring problem.

"As you know Renato didn't play too much before, then he played two games with high intensity in a short space of time," said Carvalhal.

"He felt a pain. Not the kind of pain that can be a rupture, but pain that meant we had to take him out of the game. We don't think he will be out for a lot of days but we must analyse it in the next 48 hours."

Wolves head coach Nuno Espirito Santo matched Carvalhal by making six changes for the tie and he was proud of how the players who came in acquitted themselves against Premier League opponents.

Nuno said: "The individual players that came in, of the first moments of the season for some players, young players who were dominant in the game, controlling the game, creating chances, being better than the opponent - you have to be pleased and proud.

"Players like Morgan (Gibbs-White) and Rafa (Mir) played for the first time with us at this level. They worked really good and that is important, with the same desire. The whole squad had it with a lot of players coming in and this is what we want."